USSR tactics of control

Question 1

Red army

Answer 1

-Stalin wanted to maintain his Red Army’s presence in E.EU to provide security for communists states
-Demobilised after 1945: 1945 soviet army= 11 million, 1948= 2 million
-60 red army divisions remained in europe to act as a policing force over satellite states

Question 2

Salami tactics

Answer 2

-Gradual process of threats + alliances as a means of overcoming opposition
-An aggressor can influence + eventually dominate a political landscape slice by slice
-Political tactic of dismantling large opposition parties into small + disunited groups