POL101Y1 Lecture 5: PoliSci Lecture 5
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In poland a communist government was imposed by force, the baltic. 1991 coup in ussr where gorbachev was arrested, by yeltsin wasn"t which led to a popular uprising and the release of gorbachev. In 1946 stalin stated all of germany must be ours, that is soviet communist , and 2 months before roosevelt"s death in 1945 he stated stalin has broken every one of the promises he made at yalta . It would be much more difficult for the ussr to control eastern europe without serious brutality due to the alienation of germans by the crimes against humanity committed by. Soviet troops in ww2 and during the partitioning. Europe under the condition that american (and canadian) goods would be bought with the money. In france and italy, most of the resistance groups against the nazis were ran by. Communists, so following ww2 the communist groups held a massive degree of influence.
