At the conclusion of WW 2, the Western allies sought democratic governments for Eastern Europe and basically for all of Europe. The Soviets under Joseph Stalin had other ideas. Their armies essentially occupied the Eastern nations where they had driven out the Nazi armies. The Soviets had an expansionist ideology and installed communist governments in the nations of Eastern Europe. This included East Germany.
The Soviet Union did not want allies, they wanted puppet states. They controlled eastern Europe until the wall came down.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
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Winston Churchill described the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe as an Iron Curtain that kept democratic western influences out of the Soviet controlled Eastern Europe through military force.
Glasnost allowed Western ideas and practices to reach eastern Europe, which meant the decline of Soviet influence and the eventual breakup of the Russian-dominated union. Glasnost allowed Western ideas and practices to reach eastern Europe, which meant the decline of Soviet influence and the eventual breakup of the Russian-dominated union. It ended Communism in many countries. -Apex
the western allies wanted the U.S.S.R to join the war agianst Japan
The Soviet Union did not want allies, they wanted puppet states. They controlled eastern Europe until the wall came down.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
decades of war between Eastern and Western Europe.
i have no clue
The environment of Eastern Europe is in extremely poor condition compared to the environment of Western Europe. The former Soviet bloc countries had much lower standards during the Soviet occupation.
The Soviet Union invaded those countries with its massive army. Just to give you an idea about the scope of the Soviet Army, the USSR lost 8.7 million soldiers during the war and still managed to conquer half of Europe. The Soviet Union invaded Eastern Europe at the same time that the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western Allies invaded Western Europe. The difference was that after World War II, the Western Allies withdrew a large portion of their armies and allowed the countries of Western Europe to determine their own governments. The Soviets used their military power to force Eastern European governments to be modeled after the Soviet Union and kept their armies in Eastern European countries to crush dissent.
Germany controlled most of Western Europe. Although Britain had not fallen, it was powerless to challenge the Nazi position on the continent. In Eastern Europe, the Nazis had advanced deep into Soviet territory. Soviet losses numbered in the millions. Still, in 1942, the pendulum began to swing in the Allies' favor
They left it under control of the Soviet Union.
Winston Churchill described the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe as an Iron Curtain that kept democratic western influences out of the Soviet controlled Eastern Europe through military force.