The USSR also gained de facto control over relatively developed places like the Baltics, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and exploited them. Czechoslovak indu

The USSR also gained de facto control over relatively developed places like the Baltics, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and exploited them. Czechoslovak industry in the early 1950s was producing a shitton of products sold under their real price to the Soviets, or bargained for cheap agricultural products.