Did The Soviet Union Also Withdraw Their Troops After Ve Day?
When D Day started, the allies pushed eastwards from Normandy France towards Germany. At the same time, the Soviet Union also started an eastern front and pushed West into Germany.
After the Soviet Union entered countries like Poland or Romania on their way to Germany, did they withdraw their troops after victory in Germany? The allies such as Britain and US did withdraw their troops from France after the war. They only maintained their troops in Germany.
Did the Soviet Union also withdraw their troops from countries like Poland, Romania or Czechoslovakia after they send their troops there to find the Germans?
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Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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Comment from Michael B
Time: February 28, 2010, 7:05 am
The Soviet Union was not fighting a war of liberation: it was fighting a war of conquest, They therefore had no reason to withdraw. As far as they were concerned the history of the area gave them the right to rule Poland. Romania and Hungary they classified as enemy states; without hesitation they occupied and ruled them, maintaining this colonial régime until quite recently.
British and other allied forces were indeed withdrawn from France and Italy (a nominal ally by the end of the war, following the fall of Mussolini’s government and occupation by the Germans) but by no means at once. Even in France the troops were needed to ensure order for some months after the fighting stopped. Italy and Austria (nominally a victim, not a partner of Germany) were occupied for longer, with Austria for a time divided between Russian and Allied zones just as Germany was.
As is well known, Soviet control over a large part of Central/Eastern Europe continued until a generation ago, ad they are now trying to find ways to reestablish it.
Comment from bloggers
Time: February 28, 2010, 8:05 am
No. In Poland the troops were not withdrawn until 1993.
For a detailed discussion of each Eastern European country and the Soviet troops in it, see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occu…
or google it, using the search terms as follows: “soviet occupation” “eastern europe”
Comment from Korky
Time: February 28, 2010, 8:28 am
only after turning them all communist first, we should never have stopped until we drove them (the Russians )back over the old boarders,
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