Resistance to soviet authority

Following WWII, The United States and Soviet Union were gripped in the clenches of a Cold War. Stalin felt the need to spread communism and add on to the Soviet Union by installing communist governments in the countries to the east, while the goal of the Truman Doctrine in America was to prevent the spread of communism. With the transition to communism of many countries in the eastern bloc, resistance to Soviet authority was inevitable. …

…Riots broke out in Prague. The Russians killed over one thousand and arrested several thousand more supporters of the new government, effectively ending the uprising. During the Cold War, many Soviet satellite nations resisted the authority of the USSR. The uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia failed, although they would later gain independence when Mikhail Gorbachev abrogated the Brezhnev doctrine in 1989, they affected the stability of the USSR and contributed to its eventual fall. Brian Boger