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Mongolia asked to join the Warsaw Pact in 1963, but was blocked by Hungary. Why did Mongolia want into a USSR-dominated alliance that so many eastern European countries wanted to escape? Why did Hungary want to keep Mongolia out of the pact?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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