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Why did Stalin feel compelled to create puppet states in Eastern Europe?
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Stalin created puppet states in Eastern Europe to expand the power of the USSR. It also enabled the Soviet Union to take advantage of these nations' Natural Resources and their industries. The idea that he created the socalled Soviet bloc to protect the USSR from Western Europe and the US, is a convenient way to rationalize his method of imperialism. And, the idea that by controlling the nations of Eastern Europe, he prevented the creation of an anti-Soviet alliance that could become a threat to the USSR falls into the excuse for imperialism stated earlier.
In terms of measuring the validity of the Soviet imperialism argument for Stalin's aggression is fairly easy. For all practical purposes, there is no evidence that the populations of Western Europe made any mass movements into Eastern Europe to be protected from Western imperialism. Quite the opposite, people in these puppet states risked their lives to escape from Eastern Europe, or stage revolutions, such as Hungary did in the mid 1950's.
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∙ 9y agoJoseph Stalin felt justified, in controlling Eastern Europe, in order to create a buffer zone between the USSR and Europe. Joseph Stalin felt threatened by the United States and its allies.
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What was one of Stalin's major goals in eastern Europe after World War 2?
To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments.
What are the cultural factors that create boundaries within Eastern Europe?
Ethnicity, Language, and Religion
If god is perfect why did he feel compelled to create us?
I know of no evidence that he felt compelled to do anything whatsoever.
What did Hitler have planned for eastern Europe?
He did not care for them in the least. He only gave a crap about germans and himself. That is it.
Did Stalin create the NEP?
no stupid. it was lenin.
What type of economic system did Joseph Stalin create?
Stalin ruled over a state capitalist system, but he didn’t create it.
what did stalin create for people who disagreed with the government?
The gulags
How did the Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe result in the cold war?
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.
Did Stalin want to protect eastern Europe?
No he didn't. By bringing Eastern Europe within the Communist sphere of influence and installing Communist puppet Governments, he wanted to create a buffer zone around the Soviet Union that would protect him against any future attack from Western Europe. You have to keep in mind that he had been taken totally by surprise by Hitler's attack on Russia and that the enemy was within 10 miles from Moscow before he could organize a proper defense. The ensuing war had cost Russia more dead and wounded than all the other Allies taken together.
What were Stalin's policies for the soviet union after World War 1?
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.
What two revolutions did Stalin create in 1928?
Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary for the Communist Party from 1922 until 1953. He was a part of the Great Turn or Stalin Revolution.
What city did Peter the Great create?
Peter the Great created the city of St. Petersburg as a way to get away from the eastern influences in Moscow and be closer to the wetsern influences of Europe.
