By the year's end the countries of Eastern Europe seem to have been liberated from the pressures of the Brezhnev Doctrine (though Soviet troops remained). Communist governments put in place and held there by force had collapsed. ..…
Moscow conference thus highlights process of transformation of Soviet into Communist one. ... The Jugoslav break in 1948 was the first that Communist system could not work by applying Stalinist domestic practices to Soviet bloc. ..…
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