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Domination of Eastern Europe - Coggle Diagram
Domination of Eastern Europe
Economic Policy
Dekulakisation
“Large landholders, penalized by punitive taxation, differential prices and quotas, withholding ration books, discrimination against their children.” (169)
Comecon
Bilateral Trade Agreement With Eastern Bloc
Exploitation - Colonial Style
Collectivise
Collectivisation
State ownership of firms
Hungary 83% as of Dec. 1949
Polan 84% as of Dec. 1949
Massive industrial growth but huge decrease in agricultural gain, harvest in 1950 was less than 1929 and czarist era
Uniform policies for everyone
Bad decision as each country was in a different economic situation
Exceptions
Tito's Yugoslavia
Albania
Followed Yugoslavia instead of USSR
Poland
Revolts
Plzen
20,000 protesters, but fizzled out because it was just one city
Berlin
400,000 protesters across GDR
Red Army and Stasi got involved, leading to 300 deaths and thousands of arrests
Motivation
Create a buffer zone between USSR and Western Europe
Spread communist values
Gain economically by using satellite states to produce goods and sell to USSR at very low costs
Create a strong bloc of communist states in the UN
Political Policy
Antisemitism
Seen through show trials
Slansky Trial in Prague
Kostov Trial
Rajk Trial
Used to unite population against a scapegoat instead of against Stalin himself
Show trials
Outlawing of other parties
Comecon