tito
Josip Broz Tito, president of the (Socialist Federal Republic of) Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980.
Stalin
Stalin demanded power in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
The big three of the United Nations are Franklin D. Roosevelt of USA, Winston Churchill of Britain and Joseph Stalin of Russia.
Stalin perpetrated terror in his quest to end capitalism in the Soviet Union. Charges were fabricated against persons perceived as spies of capitalist nations, and they were executed, tortured and imprisoned.
Josip Tito
Josip Broz Tito, president of the (Socialist Federal Republic of) Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980.
The breakdown of relations between SFR Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union was called the Tito-Stalin Split. This began the Informbiro Period in 1948.
Joseph Stalin's political goals were to consolidate the Red Army. He also wanted to rebuild the economy of the Soviet Union.
Well the soviets never ruled the balkans, it was under the ruler of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Tito, who was actually very against the USSR, and although a communist, he was kicked out of the Warsaw pact and survived many assassinations by Stalin
Stalin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have done some research and as it occurs, there was a brief period that some refer to as the occupation of Yugoslavia from the USSR. During the WWII, what was later formed as Yugoslavia was defended by the Partisans, a peoples movement inspired by communism, and one must add, the simple need for defense. The Russian forces did help in the final push against the Germans, and Yugoslavia remained communist for many decades. This is where the occupation part comes in - as the Russian forces barged in to help against the Germans, they stayed for some time. But, the country was never even remotely a part of the USSR, later there was even a fallout between Tito, the leader of the communist Yugoslavia, and the leader of the USSR at the time.
The Eastern Nations were kept by Stalin and the USSR. They became the Eastern Bloc. They tried to get free of communism but it did not work. Yugoslavia was able to get free of USSR control. In the 1990s they were finally freed of USSR control and able to become self ruling nations with viable economies. Prior to the final end of the war many people did get out of those eastern nations and make it to the Allied Forces to get relocated to different nations.
FDR, US; Stalin, USSR; Churchill, UK.
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.
Stalin demanded power in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.