Stalin installed and supported communist regimes across Eastern Europe after World War II, establishing a buffer zone of satellite states under Soviet influence. This included countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and East Germany, where he promoted the establishment of one-party states aligned with Soviet ideology. The Soviet Union provided military and economic support to these governments, enforcing loyalty through political purges and repression of dissent. This expansion of Soviet control contributed to the division of Europe during the Cold War.
Stalin was interested in eastern Europe because he believed it was subject to the Soviet influence.
Stalin did not keep his promise to hold elections in eastern Europe.
Stalin supported state capitalist governments in Eastern Europe. Communism has no government (or classes or money).
Stalin promised protection and to work with the USSR.
Stalin Refused to allow free elections in eastern Europe World War 2
Stalin's objective was to have control of most/half of eastern Europe
Stalin's objective was to have control of most/half of eastern Europe
Stalin's objective was to have control of most/half of eastern Europe
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.
First the Soviet Union and then most of eastern Europe.
Josef Stalin did not keep the promise he made in the Yalta Conference
The threat of another war kept the US from stopping Stalin's efforts to take over eastern Europe.