In East Germany the communists did badly. Stalin forged results so communists won., In Romania the 1946 elections were fixed so that communist won 327 seats out of 414. , In Hungary the Communist got only 17% of votes in 1945 elections., In Hungary the Russian army arrested all non Communist leaders and sent them to Siberia., In Romania Stalin forced the king to appoint a Communist Prime Minister. The king was forced to leave after the communists won the election, In Bulgaria the Communists won easily as their opponents were banned from taking part., In Poland Stalin delayed elections for 6 months. During this he arrested anti-communists., In Czechoslovakia the Communist won 38% of votes and agreed to share power. This lasted till February 1948 when Communists took full power by themselves. ​, Stalin wanted Soviet ( USSR) friendly governments in their neighbouring countries, Stalin argued that the USSR had been attacked twice in the 20th Century through Eastern Europe., Stalin wanted friendly Communist countries as neighbours to act as a buffer zone in case of an attack on the USSR, In WW2 nearly 23 million people from the USSR died ( army and civilians).

Stalin's Salami Tactics

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