The soviets captured Berlin in the year 1945

All were communist states. Also Eastern Germany.

Probably Odessa

The two sides of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War were the Soviet Union and Europe. This was a symbolic barrier put up to limit the West's influence.

They sent in the Soviet Army, rolled tanks throughout the country and crushed the opposition. A Soviet backed government was installed, 26,000 people were arrested, 22,000 were sentenced, 13,000 imprisoned, and hundreds executed. As well hundreds were deported to work camps with no trial. About 200,000 Hungarians fled Hungary and became refugees.

They are separated by the Bering Strait.
The Bering Strait.

The Warsaw Pact.

Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by a Russian agent sent by Joseph Stalin in 1940.

the American, British, and French zones of Germany were unified.

napoleon did not invade Russia.

Yes, actually, he did. The cold Russian Winter defeated Hitler and Napoleon.

Turkmenistan became an independent country on 26 December 1991, but the territory was already contiguous and autonomously governed in the USSR as Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic from 13 May 1925.

They staged a revolution against Gorbachev's regime.

How the Soviet's react to the blockade

Romania began to gain independence from the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej later convinced Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw Soviet troops from Romania in 1958, granting them even more freedom. The country was officially independent of Soviet rule after the 1989 fall of the Soviet Union.

Man, do you need to use the Spell Check program!

I THINK you meant to ask "WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN THE SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED THEIR SPACE SHUTTLE?" As they don't have a space shuttle, we don't know who the president will be when they do have one.

The US claimed that the plane was a weather research aircraft which had strayed into SU airspace, denying that it was a spy plane.

The so-called communist bloc was really state capitalist. After the fall of theUSSR, it became mainly private capitalist. Communism means no money, no classes, no government, no rulers.

The Soviet Union possessed superior rocket technology.

Russsia's huge and if the Russian burn everything that could supply the invaders, those invaders had to carry everything with them and that is difficult.

The super powers were both spending more than they could afford on this

"bloodles war" and society will be bearing the brunt of this trauma for five

or more decades if not for centuries.

I'd like to know a better answer, and hope this starter will provoke one.

There could be two reasons:

(a) The Soviets were nervous, in the late 1930s, about the proximity of the Finnish border to Leningrad (Petersburg.) Until the pact of mid-1939 was signed with the German government, the Soviet one would need to plan for a possible German attack through Finland, with which the Germans had been on friendly terms for twenty years. Leningrad would in such circumstances be hard to defend.

(b) There is a long-running wish in Russia for a warm-water port. Helsinki would not provide a warmer one than Leningrad, but if (big "if") a successful war against the Finns resulted in Sweden being intimidated by Soviets on its border, the prize of Gothenburg would be within Soviet grasp; and while Gothenburg may not be exactly warm, it does have open access to the Atlantic; the Baltic is a big salt lake with a narrow exit which any enemy in Denmark, Sweden or Norway could readily dominate. This may be why the Swedish government, while stopping short of joining the Winter War on Finland's side, did allow some 8,000 "volunteers" to go to Finland's aid, equipped with a useful part of the Swedish Air Force.

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As with most of the reasons for conflict during WWII, the reason goes back to the end of World War I.

Until 1918-1919, Findland had been a part of Russia but with the chaos of the Communist Revolution, the Finish people revolted and won their independence. Lenin and the Bolsheviks had enough trouble fighting the civil war to worry about breakaway republics like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc and Finland.

The Soviets signed a secret pact, dividing up Poland with the Germans and this pact also allowed for the Soviets reclaiming the breakaway republics. The Soviet Union asked for land concessions from Findland for "defense of the Motherland." The Fins refused and the Soviets invaded.

Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created in 1935.