What happened to the countries in the Soviet bloc?

The Baltic States

• Estonia, Lativa and Lithuania became part of the Soviet Union after the war, as did what had been eastern Poland and Romania
• There was no pretence of them being separate from the USSR, as there was with the satellite states - they were treated as a part of the USSR

East Germany

• East Germany was the part of Germany that the USSR was given to administer when Germany was divided into…