After World War II, the four Allied Powers took up Occupation Zones in Germany. The US, UK, and French Zones eventually merged to become West Germany, which was a capitalist democracy like those three occupying powers. The Soviet Zone became a communist dictatorship like the Soviet Union was. It was this Soviet influence that resulted in German Communism in East Germany.
In 1945, at the close of WW II, Germany was partitioned between France, the UK, the US and the USSR. The USSR withdrew its troops from East Germany in 1989 and the Communist regime collapsed shortly thereafter.
Germany never did. East Germany became communist in 1945 when the USSR ocupied it after WW II.
By 1948 (at the latest) the Soviet Zone of Germany was Communist. The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) was a Communist state when it was established in October 1949.
East Germany came under Russian rule at the end of the second World War.
No: it became state capitalist. Communism has no classes or money or borders or government.
east Germany was forced to be communist
No, but it was between 1949 and 1989.
East Germany and East Berlin.
East Germany, the former German Democratic Republic, was Communist when it was under Russian control following the end of World War II.
communist
East Germany (German Democratic Republic) was a communist client state of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1990. It was created from the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (1945-1949) following World War II.
West Berlin was entirely surrounded by East Germany till the reunification of Germany in 1990.
East Germany was state capitalist, not Communist. Communism means no state, no classes, no money, no borders, no poverty.
East Germany and East Berlin.
Yes. East Germany was separated from West Germany by the Berlin Wall during the era of communism there. East Germany was part of the Soviet Communist Bloc and West Germany was the non-communist portion.
west Germany cut of from east Germany by the Berlin wall forcing east Germany to become a communist country.
East Germany, the former German Democratic Republic, was Communist when it was under Russian control following the end of World War II.
East Germany ended in 1990.
communist
East Germany (German Democratic Republic) was a communist client state of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1990. It was created from the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (1945-1949) following World War II.
After World War II, a large chunk of northeastern Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union. Eventually this became the basis of the "German Democratic Republic", also known as East Germany. East Germany inherited the Soviet-style Communist dictatorship as its government.
The wall was built to stop migration from East Germany to West Germany.
West Berlin was entirely surrounded by East Germany till the reunification of Germany in 1990.
Germany was divided into two countries. East and West Germany. Communist East Germany and Free West Germany.