The Fall of the Soviet Union
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Importance of Eastern Europe in the Second World War
Eastern europe was part of the soviet empire, but at slightly more arm's reach than places like ukrane and georgia. The german collapse at the end of the first war was pressiage by collapsef allies in south and east europe. In 19 91, is this important that poland, chavacia, hungary would have required military repression to keep them in that eastern block? Yes, yes. But again, the paradox of garbacho, who goes to east berlin and the e stands liberalism against the bricht regime. And indeed, for example, grustovs reforms made the hungarian revolution of 56 possible.
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