What were Soviet aims in Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1975?

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Running head : Aims of Soviet in Eastern Europe from1945 to 1975

AIMS OF SOVIET IN EASTERN EUROPE FROM 1945 TO 1975

Aims of Soviet in Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1975

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , the original Communist dictatorship , the West 's principal adversary in the post-1945 hostility of the HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_4 /Cold_War .html " Cold War ( Encarta Encyclopedia ) and a dominant force in international affairs until its collapse in 1991 . The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ) was commonly known as

the Soviet Union (Sovetsky Soyuz Occupying most of the far-flung lands of the former Russian Empire in Eastern Europe and Asia , it had its capital in HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_0 /Moscow_ (city_Russia .html " Moscow , the ancestral seat of the Russian emperors , or tsars . Its title alluded to the soviets , or workers ' councils , of the HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_8 /Russian_Revolutions_of_19 17 .html " Russian Revolution of 1917 (Pioch , 2006 ) that catapulted HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_0 /Lenin .html Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks (later renamed Communists ) to power The first state the Bolsheviks established bore the name Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR . It was the largest of the many political entities of the former Russian Empire that proliferated during the HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_1 /Russian_Civil_War .html Russian Civil War (1918-1921 (Wikipedia Encyclopedia

This essay explores the aim of Soviet to control the Eastern Europe by applying different propaganda and technique to advance their powers Their black Propaganda by helping them and giving them hope for better happiness and releasing the slave to return to their countries Providing peace and practice democracy

Aims of Soviet in Eastern Europe

To disarm the country and prevent remilitarization to outlaw the National Socialist (Nazi ) Party that had been led by HYPERLINK "http /encarta .msn .com /encyclopedia_0 /Hitler .html " Adolf Hitler to decentralize the economy and reorganized it with emphasis on agriculture and to encourage democratic practices . That Germany would not again a threat to world peace . The Soviet wanted to establish a United Nation . Communist Party strongly resisted moves to focus political attention on what would happen after the war . Winning the war was more important than anything else

Instead of making a treaty immediately with defeated and disorganized Germany , the victor nations temporarily designated four occupation zones . The eastern zone was assigned to the USSR . Berlin , surrounded by the Soviet zone , was divided into four sectors its eastern zone was also assigned to the USSR . All were to be administered as parts of one country , with free trade among them . German territory east of a line formed by the Odra (Oder ) and Neisse Rivers was consigned to Polish occupancy pending a final peace settlement . The Northern part of East Russia was awarded to the USSR . The Soviets exacted huge reparations in the form of machinery and raw materials from the Soviet-occupied areas of Eastern Europe . During the postwar reconstruction of the Soviet economy , which had been devastated...