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If it helps, this is what *did* happen to them,
they were made into client states of the soviet union (now referred to as the USSR) and turned into communist semi autonomous states
The Cold War. There was a build up of arms between the US and USSR.
The burden which Europeans have to bear is called white guilt. This is a burden often attributed to European and American white people who are responsible for all the bad deeds their ancestors commited against other races.
