The people who would most likely support imperialism here would be capitalists and the media. Capitalists because they can produce much higher amounts of goods for a much lower price - exploiting the local population, and the media because they have stories to talk about which sell :)
Because of the manipulation of the election by the communist
state, USSR wanted to create satellite states wanted in order to protect them
from invasion. Soviet Union had conquered Eastern Europe, however, these satellite states tried to fight against the Soviet Union