The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were controlled by the Soviets and were ...

the Eastern Bloc consisted of many Eastern European countries which were under the influence of the USSR. These included Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. After Stalin's death in 1953 ...

The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them. Employing blitzkrieg (literally, "lightning war") tactics, Germany invades Poland. Polish military ...