In response to the formation of NATO, the USSR signed the Warsaw Treaty with her allies in 1955. The representatives of the Poland, USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and East Germany were the signatories of Warsaw Treaty.
Under the treaty, both sides committed to non-violence and accepted the existing border, imposed on Germany by the Allied Powers following the end of the Second World War. The treaty was meant to be a treaty of friendship, economic, cultural cooperation and mutual help among the signatories.