Albania, located in the Balkans, became communist after World War II but was able to maintain its independence from the ...

Stalin feared that Eastern Europe could be the doorway for an attack on the USSR by the West. Romania 1945 In the 1945 elections, a communist-led coalition government was elected. The communists ...

One by one, Communist governments loyal to Moscow seized power in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

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Two years later the Berlin Wall fell, and one by one, Eastern European countries began rejecting communist rule. “A wave of optimism swept across Europe,” said the Pew Research Center.

Castro’s endorsement of the Warsaw Pact's suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 led to an incremental improvement in Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.