The Soviet Union tightened its grip on eastern european nations and Stalin refused to let go, and economic recovery in E. Europe proceeded along the lines that appealed to the Soviets - political and social changes were LARGELY influenced by the changes made in the Soviet Union.
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Prior to World War 1 various Monarchs dominated Eastern Europe. The aristocracy ruled over the general populous. The Serbians retaliated against the Monarchs and the aristocracy who would not give them their freedom. The Serbs killed a Duke and that started the war. After World War 1 the Monarchs had to give up their rule.
During World War II Dictators ruled over Europe. After world war two most countries became democratic but sadly the USSR kept the countries they had conquered and made them communist against the will of the people.
The Soviet Union either annexed or installed puppet regimes in many of the nations of eastern Europe after the end of WW2.
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Russia is the largest country in eastern Europe. It is also the largest country in the world.
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The largest populated country in Eastern Europe is Russia.
All of them. The Soviet Union occupied everything from the Russian border to the middle of Germany, and then formed some "puppet" governments to nominally "rule" the nations of eastern Europe, but everything was still controlled from Moscow.
The Soviet Union was the country that conquered most of eastern europe
When the Soviets marched through eastern Europe they occupied it and therefore it was communist.
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Through 1944 that would be Germany, after that Russia controlled and held eastern Europe for decades.
Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe, bordered by Belarus to the north, Russia to the east, Poland to the west, and Romania and Moldova to the southwest. It has coastlines along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Most of Europe was occupied by either Germany or Russia.