: States like Bulgaria , Romania , and Hungary adopted the Soviet model of planned economies and single-party rule. 3. Life Under the "Iron Curtain"
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: Pro-communist forces gradually eliminated political opposition to consolidate power.
This article summarizes the key historical processes in 20th-century Eastern Europe as presented in the by N.V. Zagladin and N.A. Simoniya .
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Eastern Europe was integrated into the (military) and the COMECON (economic).