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| 26.05.1946 | CS | Communists win 93 of the possible 305 parliamentary seats in Czechoslovakia. |
| 27.10.1946 | BG | The Communist-led Fatherland Front achieves an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections. |
| 19.11.1946 | RO | The Romanian Bloc of Democratic Parties (including Communists) win 384 of 450 seats in parliament in elections widely believed to be falsified. |
| 19.02.1947 | PL | The manifestly fraudulent elections in Poland result in victory for the 'Democratic Bloc' dominated by Communists. |
| 07.1947 | PL
CS RO |
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania withdraw from the Marshall Plan, following the Soviet Union's lead. |
| 08.1947 | HU | In parliamentary elections, the Communists, although gaining only 22% of the vote, become the largest party. |
| 09.1947 | At a meeting of the Soviet Union and its European satellite states, participants agree to creates the Communist press and propaganda bureau, Cominform. | |
| 02.1948 | CS | "Die Tschechoslowakische KP hat durch den von ihr beherrschten Polizeiapparat alle Parteileitungenm öffentliche Gebäude, Verlagshäuser und Sendestationen besetzt, das Erscheinen der meisten Zeitungen verboten oder unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht, kommunistisch geleitet Aktionkomitees mit der Exekutive und der politischen Willenskundgebung des Landes betraut, mehrere hundert Personen hinter Schloß und Riegel gesetzt, in den seit Bestehen der Krise herrenlosen Ministerien die Geschäfte übernommen und mißliebige Beamte entlassen." |
| 23.02.1948 | CS | President Bene± resigns. |
| 24.06.1948 | D | Berlin blockade - lasts 11 months. USSR bars the land route to West Berlin, hoping to force the Allies out. |
| 28.06.1948 | YU | Yugoslavia is denounced at the Bucharest Cominform meeting, making public the breach between Tito and Stalin. |
| 25.01.1949 | The Soviet Block economic and trade organisation, Comecon. CMEA - Council for Mutual Economic Aid, comes into being. | |
| 12.05.1949 | D | Soviets admit defeat with the end of the Berlin blockade. 195 530 flights carried supplies during the 11-month blockade. |
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24.09.1949 |
CS | Minister Laszlo Rajk and 17 others are sentenced to death by show trials for 'provocation' and 'being agents of Anglo-American imperialism'. |
| 07.10.1949 | DDR | The German Democratic Republic is created from the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany. |
| 11.1949 | PL | W³adis³aw Gomu³ka is removed from the Polish Communist Party's Central Committee, accused of being an anti-Soviet. |
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14.12.1949 |
Deputy premier [country - Poland ?] Trajcho Kostov and ten others are sentenced to death, convicted of working for Western Intelligence. |
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