Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization

The Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Russian: Главнокомандующие Объединёнными вооружёнными силами стран-участниц Варшавского договора, romanized: Glavnokomanduyushchiye Obyedinonnymi vooruzhonnymi silami stran-uchastnits Varshavskogo dogovora) was a post in overall command of the military forces of the Warsaw Pact.

Furthermore, the Supreme Commander was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union.

The post, which was instituted in 1955 and abolished in 1991, was always held by a Soviet military officer.

This Soviet Union–related article is a stub.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about the Cold War is a stub.