Central Europe
The peoples of Central Europe found themselves under the Soviet sphere of influence at the end of the war (as agreed upon at the Yalta Conference), and Communist governments were gradually installed in all the countries under Soviet influence, especially Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and what was then Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia). For all the affected countries, installing the totalitarian Communist regimes also meant the decline of their economies and some loss of their national sovereignty for many years to come.
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