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Why did Stalin want control of Eastern Europe after WW2?

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Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe. 20 million Russians died during World War Two, so Stalin said he wanted a buffer zone of friendly states around Russia to make sure that Russia could never be invaded again. Stalin was planning the takeover of Eastern Europe.

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He claimed that he wanted to use it as a buffer from further attacks. However, he really just wanted to spread communism and annex that land into the Soviet Union.

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