The Growth of the Soviet Bloc

The USSR remained the only communist state until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union installed left-wing governments in the countries of Eastern Europe that the Red Army liberated from the Germans. These governments followed the Soviet pattern of a single-party system, substantial state ownership of the economy, adherence to an official ideology based on Marxism, and the maintenance of power through non-democratic means.

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