The Soviet Union tightened its grip on eastern european nations and Stalin refused to let go, and economic recovery in E. Europe proceeded along the lines that appealed to the Soviets - political and social changes were LARGELY influenced by the changes made in the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union.
Russia is the largest country in eastern Europe. It is also the largest country in the world.
The troops of the USSR.
The largest populated country in Eastern Europe is Russia.
All of them. The Soviet Union occupied everything from the Russian border to the middle of Germany, and then formed some "puppet" governments to nominally "rule" the nations of eastern Europe, but everything was still controlled from Moscow.
The Soviet Union was the country that conquered most of eastern europe
When the Soviets marched through eastern Europe they occupied it and therefore it was communist.
Damascus, Syria.
Through 1944 that would be Germany, after that Russia controlled and held eastern Europe for decades.
The biggest country in the world by land area is Russia. It covers a vast expanse of Eastern Europe and northern Asia.
Most of Europe was occupied by either Germany or Russia.