• Trudge [Comrade]
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    1 year ago

    Eastern European countries weren’t Soviet puppets because soviets didn’t control them. A few examples below.

    Yugoslavia - great tensions with the USSR all the way until the end, including plenty of denouncements on both sides.

    Albania - sided with Mao in the sino-soviet split

    GDR - friendliest with the USSR, but still did whatever they wanted in the end (such as building the berlin wall which the soviets were strongly against)

    The eastern bloc wasn’t unified like the western bloc because the USSR didn’t coup every country that didn’t toe the line like the USA. They even dissolved their main method of influencing foreign countries in the 50s (comintern).