Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ba a amfani da kalmar gaba ɗaya a wajen tsohuwar Tarayyar Soviet, kuma kalmar da ta fi kusa ita ce " Gabashin Gabas na Yaƙin Duniya na II " (1941-1945). Babu wani lokacin da ya shafi farkon yakin duniya na biyu a Gabashin Turai, lokacin da USSR, sannan har yanzu a cikin yarjejeniyar rashin cin zarafi tare da Jamus, ya mamaye gabashin Poland (1939), Baltic States (1940), Bessarabia da Arewacin Bukovina (1940) da Finland
(1939-1940). A cikin