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Question: A few questions on The Russian Takeover of Eastern Europe The Soviet Bloc (Hungary 1956)!?
1) using what tactics (explain them) did Russia take over Eatern Europe!?
2) What was the purpose behind Cominform, Comecon and the Western Pact!?
3) How was Khrushechev determined to be different from Stalin!?
4) how did his 1956 attack on Stalin lead to the Hungarian Rising!?
5) What big mistake did Nagy anf his supporters make!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
You mean the Soviets (Russia was part of the Soviet Union)!.
1) They took over Eastern Europe by using two methods: i) They fought back the Germans to meet the Western Allies at the Elbe fighting from the Black Sea to the Baltic!. ii) By placing communists in the key posts in the new administrations set up in the countries they had "liberated"!. These people then used the police and army to intimidate the other politicians and finally to gain control of the whole government!.
2) The Cominform was the successor to the Comintern!. The role of the Comintern was to spread the revolution abroad!. Cominform (the Communist Information Bureau) was set up to further the revolution abroad - and to keep foreign communist parties informed as to the policies they should be following!. Comecon was the Communist Economic Agency!. This was established in order to integrate the economies of Eastern Europe into the economy of the Soviet Union!. It was a tool of control for the Soviet Union!. The Warsaw Pact was the military counterpoint to NATO!. It was established after, in in response to the foundation of NATO, in order to provide assistance to other Socialist countries in case of invasion or in case they fell to "anti-communist elements"!.
3) Khrushchev was determined to be different to Stalin by abandoning Stalin's "Cult of Personality" and by not allowing the same to happen to him!. He also decided to liberalise the country, letting a modicum of freedom, like a freer press, some degree of criticism being allowed, and by liberalising the arts!. Finally he decided to do away with terror as a method of social control!.
4) The secret speech of 1956 where he spelt out some of Stalin's was given to a delegation of foreign communist leaders!. Some of them leaked copies of the speech to the west, and in Hungary, the people got to hear about it - they were incensed and revolted against the Communist system and the Soviet Union in general!.
5) Nagy and his supporters made the mistake of withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact!. This allowed the remaining Warsaw Pact countries the legal(ish) rationale for invasion!.
See; The Captive Nations by Patrick Brogan, and The Soviet Union 1917 - 1991 by Martin McCauleyWww@QuestionHome@Com

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