Draft:Soviet relations in the Eastern Bloc
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International relations between the USSR and its satellite states were a series of diplomatic, commercial and geopolitical actions carried out between the leaders of the Soviet Union (1922-1991) and those socialist states in Europe resulting from the Second World War, which positioned themselves as political allies of the USSR during the Cold War (1945-1991).
During such period, the Soviet Union's relations with the other Eastern Bloc allies in Europe defined the geopolitical landscape within the Iron Curtain, as well as the social dynamics in its area of influence. The satellite states resulting from the Second World War will ensure the Soviet Union a line of defence against the Western Bloc in the form of buffer countries. The various Soviet governments would firmly and decisively direct political decision-making throughout the Soviet umbrella from 1945 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991-1992, although their influence declined definitively in 1989 with the demise of most of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.