Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Moscow ta dauki Gabashin Turai a matsayin yankin buffer don kare iyakokinta na yamma kuma ta tabbatar da ikonta na yankin ta hanyar canza ƙasashen Gabashin Turai zuwa abokan haɗin gwiwa. A shekara ta 1956, sojojin Soviet sun murkushe wani tashin hankali da tawaye a Hungary kuma sun sake yin aiki a 1968
don kawo karshen gwamnatin Czechoslovak ta Prague Spring yunkurin sake fasalin. Baya ga mamayewa da shiga tsakani na soja, Tarayyar Soviet ta mallaki jihohin Gabashin Turai ta hanyar ikonta na samarwa ko hana albarkatun ƙasa masu mahimmanci.