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But the Polish government-in-exile in London refused to accept this proposal which, despite their objection, later became part of the Yalta Agreement.ДЄs the Red Army approached the Polish capital, Warsaw, in August 1944, the London Polish government organised a desperate rising by the Polish Home Army against both the Germans and the thought of a Red Army вЂliberationвЂ™. The Poles were to get parts of eastern Germany as compensation, including the rich industrial area of Silesia. The USA and Britain also agreed that the USSR was to get its pre-1921 land back from Poland (which the Poles had seized during the civil war). The story of two countries will serve to illustrate the nature of the Soviet takeover.ДЄt the Tehran Conference in 1943 Stalin had agreed to attack Germany through Poland and the Danube countries (Austria, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria). The map above illustrates the manner in which satellite states were created by the Soviet Union. In the meantime, state after state in eastern Europe fell under communist control and Soviet influence. Further, he claimed that the Russians were intent on вЂњindefinite expansion of their power and doctrinesвЂќ. In March 1946 he made his now famous вЂIron CurtainвЂ™ Speech at Fulton, Missouri (USA) in which he declared that: вЂњFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continentвЂќ. One of the most prominent critics of the changes was Winston Churchill, now leader of the opposition in Britain. Cominform and Comecon aided this transition toward them becoming Satellite states.Д«y 1946 the West was becoming increasingly aware of what was happening in eastern Europe.

But gradually the East European Communists took over the running of their countries.

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Opposition parties were allowed and in the first elections the voters were given a relatively free choice, provided the governments they chose were at least sympathetic to Communist aims and ideals. There was no sudden imposition of Soviet Communism. Leaders of these parties were often trained in Moscow and certainly received much friendly assistance from the Russians. This, and the often appalling conditions at the end of the war, played into the hands of east European communist parties, which were, of course, backed by Stalin and the Soviet Union. Neither Britain nor the United States were prepared to fight over Eastern Europe and Stalin knew this.ДЄnother reason for the spread of Communism after the war was the gratitude of many Eastern Europeans for their liberation from Nazism. Unaffected by the pressures of domestic opinion, Stalin was able to keep huge numbers of troops in a state of readiness, whereas the western powers were under intense pressure to вЂbring the boys back homeвЂ™ as soon as possible. The first was the military might of the Soviet Union in Europe after 1945. Stalin was able to create this empire for a number of reasons. In the West they were called satellites because they clung closely to the Soviet Union like satellites round a planet. This empire included Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.

How had the USSR gained control of Eastern Europe by 1948?Д«etween 19 Stalin created a Russian empire in Eastern Europe. The establishment and control of the Soviet satellite states

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