What does /his/ think of the Soviet Empire of 1945-1991?

>>2578054
How did the Soviet Union influence Finland?

>>2578074
Finland didn't get Marshall plan money and cozied up to the Soviet Union a lot.

>>2578074
Finland was basically a soviet bitch after WW2

It got so bad that in 1958 Finland held second election after the first one made the soviets mad.

>>2578074
>>2578085
These and mostly this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Soviet_Treaty_of_1948

>>2578054
The Soviet Union was not an empire.Rather it was confederate of republics which had right to withdraw from the union peacefully.
Doesn't look like an empire at all,isn't it?

>>2578107
Actually it looks a lot like empire which has aggressively expanded and creating multiple client states

>>2578054
i would include the whole globe as to influenced, even as an example of what not to do in many cases.

>>2578054
The Soviets also influenced anti-apartheid groups in South Africa.