Why did the USSR want control over Eastren Europe from 1945 onwards
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- Created on: 14-12-15 20:31
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- Why did the USSR want control over Eastern Europe from 1945 onwards
- The war factor
- 26 million died
- wanted compensation
- terrible damage on the USSR
- The ideological factor
- Wanted to spread communism
- Stalin believed capitalism was an ideology driven by greed and economic exploitation
- The security factor
- Eastern Europe countries would be a buffer zone
- there to protect the USSR from further attacks
- The atomic bomb the USA fired on Japan
- Eastern Europe countries would be a buffer zone
- The economic factor
- much of the agriculture, industry and infrastructure was destroyed
- believed they deserved compensation
- was able to take 25% of manufactured goods out of other three zones inGermany
- The war factor
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