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Romania and the Soviets in the Cold War
Unlike a country like Poland which had been just completely destroyed during the war Romania's institutions remain largely intact. Unlike most other eastern European countries before the war Romania did not have a strong communist party or indigenous movement. When the Red Army occupied Romania and began to impose the Soviet program there again to compare it to Poland in Poland they were more or less working from a blank slate.