Voting determines election outcomes, deciding which elected officials will be making the important decisions and establishing the policies that directly and indirectly affect many areas of our lives such as taxes, health care, military operations, legal codes, education and food standards.
During the 1950s, as a result of war and conquering, the status of most countries in Eastern Europe is that they became satellite countries of the Soviet Union at that time. Most countries that neighbor the Soviet Union were heavily influenced by it in terms of politics, military and economy.
