Yeah, they were great..when they wanted to be:
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Poland
1944
Warsaw uprising by resistance Polish Home Army receives no
Soviet assistance, is crushed by Nazis.
1945
Red Army liberates Polish territories and establishes
communist-dominated coalition government.
1947
Communists consolidate political monopoly after rigged
elections.

Hungary
1945, Hungary became part of the Soviet area of influence and was appropriated into a communist state following a short period of democracy in 1946-1947. After 1948, Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi established a Stalinist rule in the country.

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