Question by Alex.: What was Stalin’s policy towards neighbouring nation states during the Cold War?
I’m not asking for you to do my work for me, I just need a little bit of help with my assignment for modern history on the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Ooh, the thrills…
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Answer by ownpool
Look up Cold War and Hungarian Revolution on Wikipedia. That way you can do your own work! Yes, history is thrilling and it’s even more thrilling when you discover the knowledge on your own. Have fun!
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Slava T says
Hi, Alex. I hope you've already found it out yourself that Stalin was dead for three years (died in 1953) by the time of the Hungarian revolution of 1956. To see the Soviet side of the story I would recommend you to read Nikita Khrushchev's (the Soviet leader who authorized the Warsaw Pact countries interference) memoirs called in the English translation "Khrushchev Remembers". The Hungarian events were to a great extent initiated by Khrushchev himself, by his "secret speech" to the XXth party congress of the USSR in 1956 where he denounced Stalin's "cult of personality" and started de-Stalinization.
BTW the Soviet ambassador to Hungary at that time was Yuri Andropov, future head of the KGB and short-time Soviet leader in the beginning of 1980s.
Maria S. says
He was waiting for the opportune moment to take them over.
Stinson says
OMG, don't use wikipedia for an assignment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I do know about that period in time is that there was the Truman Doctine (US agreed to pya billions to help countries.
Any countries that wanted help from the West would lose the 'friendship' of the USSR. ie. they would be invaded. This happened to czechoslovakia – they wanted help but couldn't due to Stalin.
So yeah, the deal was do it Stalin's way or get invaded.
mister-damus says
I think Stalin may have been dead when things flared up in Hungary (I believe it was Nikita Kruschev who dealt with the unrest over there). So you're off to a bad start already . . .
According to a book I'm reading, Russia actually changed their mind about cracking down the Hungarians, but that evil moronic Mao (the chinese dictator) persuaded them to invade Hungary anyway. Mao sucks.
Will says
The only one that he did not take over was china.
I would just type "stalin" in wikipedia.