salami tactics

Question 1

salami tactics

Answer 1

• how the USSR gained increasing political control over Eastern Europe

Question 2

stages

Answer 2

1. Soviets supervise organization of governments in EE states; establish alliance of anti facists
2. each party slices off one after another
3. communist core left in countries with moscow trained people

Question 3

case study in poland?

Answer 3

• ‘free elections’ no yeld liek Stalin promised; elections were a campaign of murder, censorhip and intmidation
• deported to siberia before elctions ton ensure communist party
• soviet perspective; victory over western expansionism