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After World War II, the Soviet Union extended its control into Eastern Europe. It took over the governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia.
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US).
At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany. Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones to be administered by the four countries.
Historical Map of Russia & the former Soviet Union (21 November 1945 - Soviet Post-War Power: In the aftermath of World War II, Soviet-occupied territory stretched from central and eastern Europe to northern China, North Korea, and the Kuril Islands.
16 mar 2022 · Russia’s actions in post-Soviet wars provide clues to its brutal Ukraine invasion. In this August 2012 photo, Russian soldiers ride atop an armoured vehicle through a street in Tskhinvali,...
26 mar 2022 · In the middle of a horrifying new war, Russia and Ukraine are competing over who owns the heritage of World War II: For Russia, memory of the “Great Patriotic War,” as Russians call...
11 paź 2021 · Approaching their research from the perspective of post-colonial and sub-altern studies, Kratochvíl and Shakhanova find that Russia’s mnemonic positions are contested in Kazakhstan, where there is far lower acceptance of the heroic and Russo-centric narrative of World War II.
