Creation of the Peoples Democracies in Eastern Europe

[bailey_187]

Can someone offer me an alternative narrative to "stalin wished to create an empire" and "the red army occupation made the Communists win the elections" concerning the creation of EasternEuropes Peoples democracies, please?


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[bailey_187]

for fuck sake i put them in History because i dont want one line answers i wanted this to turn into a debate

I know i my question is one line but whatever

[willdw79]

Can someone offer me an alternative narrative to "stalin wished to create an empire" and "the red army occupation made the Communists win the elections" concerning the creation of EasternEuropes Peoples democracies, please?


Thanks
Say it like this: "In Eastern Europe from 1945 on created People's Democracies on their own accord. You can find some of the truest supporters of communism there at that time. They were ahaead of Stalin ideologically who just wanted to occupy the area. But the Eastern Europeans created their democracies DESPITE Stalin being there, not because of it"

I don't believe this, but I think it is in the form of a historical analysis as opposed to a question.

[Outinleftfield]

I am an anarchist communist who sees Stalin as a brutal tyrant who expanded 'communism' into the eastern block countries for his own power, but I can imagine the argument would go like this:

"During WWII the great people's democracy"(Stalinists rationalize the USSR under Stalin as being a democracy) in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Stalin managed to liberate many people from the tyranny of the Third Reich. It is only natural that the liberated working people of these countries would were exposed to communist ideas from the Soviet soldiers and that the promise of liberation from class oppression spurred them to vote for communist governments after the war."

That's probably about what Stalin and other pro-USSR people were saying at the time. It probably said something like that in Soviet textbooks up until the fall of the Soviet Union.