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The People's Republic of Poland is formed in August-September of 1944
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Democratic Government of Albania is formed, later named the People's Republic of Albania, and then the People's Socialist Republic of Albania until 1991.
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The Soviet Union exits WWII as a superpower.
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The People's Republic of Bulgaria came to power.
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The Soviets managed to control Hungarian political affairs by using coercion and setting up police organizations to persecute the opposition.
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Romania falls to communism under soviet occupation.
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The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed control of Czechoslovakian government
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The ruling Communist party, known as the Socialist Unity Party had already been formed in 1946 from the merger between the Communist Party of Germany and the Social Democratic Party of Germany by mandate of Joseph Stalin.
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