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RUSSIA

POLAND

EAST GERMANY

The Yalta Conference produced a new government for Poland to be run and Moscow and promote Communism. This angered much of Poland and a resistance there was even held well into the 1950s. Eventually, Poland surrendered to Soviet control.

After the Potsdam Conference following WWII, Germany was split between the Allies. Russia got East Germany and turned it into a socialist/communist state.

Russia was the "original" communist country. It was the nation that communism branched out of. Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin originated communism.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

After WWII Czechoslovakia began to be heavily influenced by the Soviet Union. In 1946 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia won the parliamentary elections in the Czech lands and in 1948 the communists seized power.

HUNGARY

After WWII, the Nazi army receded and the Soviet troops took over the entire country. Gradually, they became a communist satellite nation for Russia.

ROMANIA

The Soviets occupied Romania in 1944 and won 80% of the vote in government elections directly following. In 1947 Russia abdicated the King of Romania and rapidly gained complete control, establishing the nation as a people's republic.

YUGOSLAVIA

After WWII, in 1946, a new constitution was formed that shaped Yugoslavia into the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The new government was modeled after the Russian one, but Yugoslavia never actually came under Soviet control.

BULGARIA

In 1944 there was a strong left-wing uprising in Bulgaria, prompting the road to communism. In 1946 a people's republic was established here, and it was becoming a Stalinist state.

ALBANIA

Like Yugoslavia, Albania never directly came under Soviet influence. Instead, after Nazis vacated Albania a new socialist government was formed in the small nation.

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