As 1942 was drawing to a close, the Soviets were making significant progress against the Italian and Romanian armies. In fact Axis powers were being routed into a panic. Too ill to travel, Mussolini had his foreign minister, Ciano to advise Hitler to make a deal with the Soviets. This would ease the enormous pressure on the Eastern front and allow for Axis forces to focus on the British and Americans. Hitler rejected this advice.
The soviets had expected to win a quick victory
Berlin.
The Warsaw Pact.
No , the Russian's primary theater of the war was on the Eastern Front .
The council for mutual assistance founded in 1949 was the soviet response to marshal aid. It was supposed to be a means by which the soviet union could financially support countries in eastern Europe. In reality it was used by the soviets to: -control the economies of these states -give soviets access to their resources -encourage countries to specialize in things; Czechoslovakia to concentrate on heavy industry. Romania to concentrate on production of food etc.
Eastern European governments as soviet puppets
The Soviets (Russians) had already over-run those positions by wars end. What they had, they kept.
All of Eastern Europe.
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Probably not but there is an Eastern Front Mod for CoH including the Red Army.
Continue progressing West towards Germany.
They were afraid of losing control of eastern Europe.