Essay on the Causes of Collapse of the USSR (618 Words)
The countries of Eastern Europe, namely, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Yugoslavia, adopted communism after World War II. Except Yugoslavia, where Marshal Tito defied the Russian hegemony, other East European countries were speedily integrated into a pro-Soviet Union bloc, and with the passage of time their policies were dictated by the USSR. […]