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I don't know why you thinkYugoslavia was closer to the Warshaw pact (communism?), but it was completely the opposite (especially back then), since Tito had a fewd with Stalin and I bet he'd just cream his pants if there was a possibility to piss off the Russians. Infact no formal requests were ever made to Yugoslavia from NATO side. Imo they never had any intentions to intervent simply because they considered it too risky. But at the same time... wouldn't Warshaw pact members consider it too much of a risk to start a possible nuclear confict because of a (relatively) obscure country like Hungary? It was a matter of mutual respect and fear between the two sides and in this case the USSR ignored that respect.
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