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They staged a revolution against Gorbachev's regime.
They staged a revolution against Gorbachev's regime.
The European Union was founded by Western European countries while Eastern European countries were still occupied by the Soviet Union.
Ukraine is the largest of the European countries that were part of the Soviet Union.
No. The now defunct Soviet Union consisted of many countries that spread from the east of Europe to the east of Asia. Some of the countries in eastern Europe were part of what was known as the Soviet bloc, but not part of the Soviet Union. This would have included countries like Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, amongst others. Some of the eastern European countries, that now have their independence, like Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia, were part of the Soviet Union.
They staged a revolution against Gorbachev's regime.
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the warsaw pact
WARSAW Pact countries.
After Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev was the dominant next Soviet leader. He and more moderate Soviet leader allowed satellite countries more independence, as long as they remained allied powers with the Soviet Union. This changed the perspectives in many of the eastern European countries as they slowly started active protests. Hungary and Czechoslovakia were from the first countries that started revolutions. Generally, the satellite countries, which included Georgia and other eastern European countries, were able to form their own government after their encounter with the rampage of Russian Communism.
they were called satellites