Why did Eastern Europe decide to ally with the USSR?

Why did Eastern Europe decide to ally with the USSR?

I don't think they were really given much of a choice user

of course they were, everyone always has a choice

they chose to give up and become colonies of the USSR instead of fight back

they lost the fight you retard

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They became USSR colonies because their militaries were almost totally fucking annihilated

>be eastern european country
>infrastructure and cities in ruins
>country many times your size with millions of soldiers within your borders demands an alliance

>Eastern Europe occupied by a 26-million strong Red Army at peak mobilization strenght
>Poland and East Germany forcibly reduced in size
>Communists lose elections in half the countries, still form government at gunpoint with Red Army backing
>What was the Prague Spring?
>What were the Hungarian 1956 revolts?

>Decided

Unironically KYS.

then they should have fought harder

If only they had someone with your brilliant ideas in the 40's user

If the soviets were so invincible then how did the Afghans beat them?

because they were liberated by the russian blood.
in fact, the whole europe knew that right after the war, it's the decades of us propaganda that changed the picture.

indeed, a great deal of suffering could have been avoided

(I'm a negative utilitarian so the more people that died fighting the soviets the better)

If America won Vietnam then the Soviets won Afghanistan

neither is true

Is there any particular reason why the Soviets weren't able to grab any land in Austria? Did they just not get there in time, or is there some reason why Austria was considered undesirable?

Austria was negotiated to be neutral

Both Russians and Americans got to Austria at the same time. But it was too small to partition it, Germany-style, and it was an occupied country, technically, and not a defeated Axis member, so they decided it to leave it intact as a neutered neutral state.

Hence why Austria is not a NATO member to this day.

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That basically answers the question, they didn't get there fast enough to claim it for themselves.

Billions in support from the US and Saudi Arabia going to fighters who weren't bound by treaty or pretense of civility and who reveled in gang-raping prisoners to death?

Sorry to break this to you user, but I think your a fascist.

It's always easier to blame others, they now act as if there were no communists in their countries and no one wanted to be part of it

but of course the west is to blame for not starting a war with Stalin and stuff like that

This. We should've kept going to Moscow.

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None of them accepted communist role willingly, with the exception of SUBHUMAN CZECHS

What a faggot OP is here.
>hurr durr negative utilitarian
kys unironically

Look at the geography of Eastern Europe.
Then look at the geography of Aghanistan.

Why is Romania and Albania red?

Fucking brainlets

>Hungarian 1956 revolts?

Internal party struggle

wtf no

what's wrong with negative utilitarianism

Shit fucking bait

Nah, commies got 43.25%, while democratic paries (National socialists, People's party and Social democrats) got 56%.

fpbp

They were the sacrificial lambs to appease the Soviet demon, so that the world wouldn't plunge into another world war. NATO wouldn't win on land anyway, if they don't use nukes.

You say it like USA was given a choice there.

>democratic paries (National socialists, People's party and Social democrats)

Dafuq you even trying to say here? "Le ebul Czechoslovakia was not democratic in 1946"?

>(I'm a negative utilitarian so the more people that died fighting the soviets the better)
You have to be 18 to post here.

it was never democratic

Thank you for your valuable input.

apparently censorship and show trials are democratic

>people will respond to this bait thread

First of all, all war planning was done by the Soviet Ministry of Defence, the other Warsaw Pact countries were simply told what their role would be in case of war.

Secondly, the Soviet Union kept a close eye on any kind of dissidents within the military of the other Warsaw Pact countries; any dissidents were quickly removed. The result was that those in the military were loyal to the Soviet cause.

Thirdly, the Soviets controlled all logistics, all supply lines, and most depots. If a Warsaw Pact unit would have refused to fight, it would have received no more fuel, ammunition, food, or medical aid. This would render the unit impotent after which the Soviets would have destroyed it. It was made very clear that any refusal to follow (Soviet) orders would result in a massacre. The Soviets were not really subtle about this.

Finally, NATO was considered to be a real threat. NATO aircraft violating Warsaw Pact airspace, NATO placing 7,000 nuclear weapons in Western Europe by 1959, etc. Add to this that it was well-known NATO had a nuclear First Strike policy and you can see that most non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries really believed NATO to be the aggressive bloc.

As for the Warsaw Pact war plans, the Soviet planners had every confidence that their Allies were 100% trustworthy. The Czechoslovak Army was considered to be the toughest and was supposed to take on the bulk of the German and US forces in Southern Germany. Polish pilots were even trained in dropping Soviet nuclear weapons. There was no question whatsoever about cohesion in case of war.

Why did Japan decide to get nuked?

>fight
>after being devastated in wwii

>decide to ally

>National socialists, People's party
>democratic

american liberal brain at work

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we NEED to bring back the warsaw pakt