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 ...

Communist parties had gained control through what the Hungarian leader, Rakosi, called salami tactics: By 1950, the Eastern Bloc consisted of many Eastern European countries which were under the ...

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand of communism unknown to the rest of Eastern Europe. A fateful blend of isolationism and dictatorship kept this tiny Balkan country the poorest ...

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.