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the Soviet Union explored close relationships with Eastern European nations, Just as the United States created the Marshall Plan to provide economic support to Western European nations, the USSR established COMINFORM and COMICOM. Furthermore in response to the establishment of NATO, the USSR and Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw pact.

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they had a server economic problem and they got a new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, he had to make some reforms so he gave Eastern Europe more freedom.

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