The Stalin Line was the line of fortifications along the western border of the Soviet Union that began in the 1920's. This was to protect the USSR against western aggression, made up of concrete bunkers and gun emplacements.
Stalin created a group od communist "satellites" to serve as a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and capitalist West Europe, especially Germany. The boarder separating these satellites and Western Europe was referred to as the Iron Curtain.
The new Marginot Line of defence.
A buffet
He did get his buffer zone, but it fell over the years
The main goal was to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe
For all practical purposes, the Soviet Union under Stalin abandoned their hopes that the workers of other nations would rise up and create socialism. With the military opportunity presented by their occupation of Eastern European nations after WW 2, the USSR created puppet satellite communist nations. Stalin created economic and social policies within these new communist regimes to benefit the USSR.
The buffer zone was created by the Soviet Union between them and Germany because after being attacked and destroyed by Germany twice they were terrified of it happening again so the zone was there to protect them by having Communist countries in the way.
During but especially after World War II, Stalin sought to occupy and then control satellite nations in Europe, especially, for several reasons. The first was ideological: to spread the Communist revolution. The second was defensive in nature: Stalin sought to establish a buffer of sympathetic nations around the Soviet Union as protection against any further aggression by major powers in future wars.
He did get his buffer zone, but it fell over the years
The main goal was to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe
For all practical purposes, the Soviet Union under Stalin abandoned their hopes that the workers of other nations would rise up and create socialism. With the military opportunity presented by their occupation of Eastern European nations after WW 2, the USSR created puppet satellite communist nations. Stalin created economic and social policies within these new communist regimes to benefit the USSR.
The buffer zone was created by the Soviet Union between them and Germany because after being attacked and destroyed by Germany twice they were terrified of it happening again so the zone was there to protect them by having Communist countries in the way.
A z-buffer is a buffer for the purpose of tracking the relative depths of different objects in a scene, when creating computer graphics.
During but especially after World War II, Stalin sought to occupy and then control satellite nations in Europe, especially, for several reasons. The first was ideological: to spread the Communist revolution. The second was defensive in nature: Stalin sought to establish a buffer of sympathetic nations around the Soviet Union as protection against any further aggression by major powers in future wars.
to protect themselves from invaders
The satellites help provide buffer for the soviet union because they can track which invader is coming toward their border or see if any bombs are heading toward the nation of the soviet union
During but especially after World War II, Stalin sought to occupy and then control satellite nations in Europe, especially, for several reasons. The first was ideological: to spread the Communist revolution. The second was defensive in nature: Stalin sought to establish a buffer of sympathetic nations around the Soviet Union as protection against any further aggression by major powers in future wars.
I've got one big reason, which is that.. In the past the Soviet Union had been invaded twice by Germany; ww1 and ww2. Stalin was a seriously paranoid leader (historians argue that it was mainly because of this that he killed millions of his own people), but in this case he may have been justified in taking over Poland. Stalin wanted and needed buffer states to protect him from invasion from the west, the most important of these buffer states being Poland; simply because Poland acted as a giant land barrier between the Soviet Union and Germany. At the peace conferences in Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin argued that he needed 'friendly governments' instated in Eastern Europe so that Germany, or any other Western non-communist country for that matter, could invade the Soviet Union; In a nutshell Stalin created the Iron Curtain and instated Communist governments in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland etc mainly so that Germany nor any one else could ever invade him from the West.
Soviet expansion in Europe (as a result of Stalin's need to create a buffer zone for the USSR to protect itself from future invasion - they had suffered heavy casualities in WWII, whilst the US had flourished economically) was seen by the US as Stalin trying to spread communism, which to an extent was true. The capitalist US was afraid of communism, which eventually led to the Red Scare. As a result of soviet expansionism, the US decided to set up 'marshall Aid,' which set up funds for the countries of eastern Europe at threat of falling to communism, much to Stalin's dismay. Also, Stalin's expansionism was a problem as he was trying to take Poland and Germany, Poland, the country that England had entered WWII for in the first place. The real problem came to a head when Stalin infringed on the "declaration on liberation Europe" which stated that eatern europeans countries had the freedom to choose the type of government under which they lived. basically, Soviet expansionism really did stem the whole cold war - it brought to the forefront the US's fear of communism and total hostility - the proxy war began over Marshall Aid, and the Berlin Airlift in 1948, which were as a result of soviet expansionism.
Poland