East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia resisted Soviet control despite being a communist nation
Explanation:
- Khrushchev's policy of "coexistence" with the West did not mean that he was willing to recognize the peace settlement in Germany.
- he was determined to change it in favor of the Soviet Union and its East German satellite
- The Western powers refused the plan because the abolition of the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" would not leave NATO forces.
- both the Soviet and East German governments still continued to achieve the goal of a united, Germany under communist control.
- there was also a significant increase in academic and cultural contacts with the West.
