Within this document there are many facts that relate to the different historic interpretations at the time (post -revisionist, revisionist and traditionalist). You will find information regarding economic statistics, timeline of key events and a plethora of useful quotes.
Stalin is violating the Declaration of Liberated Europe (which embodied the Atlantic Charter).
1940- Incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Eastern Poland, Northern Bukovina and
Bessarabia.
1944-Declaration of war on Bulgaria. By 1945, the USSR was in full control of the country
1946-Iran and the formation of the Azerbaijan Peoples Government (status was a puppet state for
the USSR) determined to spread their influence.
1945- At Potsdam Stalin wanted Soviet trusteeship over Italian colonies
1946- Soviet desires for Turkish Straights. Soviet demand for the tearing up of the Montreux
Convention, which S.O.S Dean Acheson believed it would lead control over Turkey, Greece,
India and China.
1947-Establishment of the COMMINFORM
Stalin’s declaration to interfere in any Eastern European Countries affairs. Famously, regarding
the Yugoslavian leader Tito, he could “wag his little finger” and he would be no more.
1947-Moncarch of Romania forced to abdicate, and Peoples’ Republic of Romania was
recognised as the governing party.
1947-USSR had beaten the Hungarian Smallholders’ Party with the Hungarian Communist Party
winning the elections.
1947- The “fall” of Czechoslovakia. Formation of communist government where they won
237/300 votes.
Formation of the Lublin committee (Stalin’s orders) which granted Soviets relative ease when
marching into Warsaw.
1. Stalin demanded for the liquidation of Poland (as agreed to by the Molotov-Ribbentrop
pact).
2. Lublin committee formed the provisional government, until 1947 elections.
3. 1947 legislative elections- the communist party, National Union Party obtained 80.1% of
the vote with 394/422 seats.
o Postwar reconstruction in 1948- grain production was up by 174% for the USSR vs in 1945. In
same time period, certain transport sectors were up by 148%.
Soviet military occupation; Manchuria 1945-1946; Korea 1945-1948 (establishment of the Soviet
Civil Administration and subsequently the Korean Provisional People’s Committee).
Quotes
Ambassador Averell Harriman described the Soviet presence in Europe as a “Barbarian
Invasion”
Likewise, the secretary of the foreign office, Alexander Cadogan declared: “How can we work
with these beasts?”
John Lewis Gaddis, “world politics was an extension of Soviet politics”
Arthur M. Schlesinger, "Marxism-Leninism gave the Russian leaders a view of the world
according to which all societies were inexorably destined to proceed along appointed roads by
appointed stages until they achieved the classless nirvana. Moreover, given the resistance of the
Capitalists to this development, the existence of any non-Communist state was by definition a
threat to the Soviet Union. ... An Analysis of the origins of the Cold ideology, the sinister
dynamics of a totalitarian society and the madness of Stalin – is obviously incomplete”.
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