Why didn't USSR make their own "Austrian People's Republic" or give their zone to Hungary?
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Karl Renner was already pro-Soviet enough to give everybody what they wanted, except the Jews. It was the Allies who had to capitulate in this case.
>>16552951>Whereas Germany was divided into East and West Germany in 1949, Austria remained under joint occupation of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union until 1955; its status became a controversial subject in the Cold War until the warming of relations known as the Khrushchev Thaw. After Austrian promises of perpetual neutrality, Austria was accorded full independence on 15 May 1955 and the last occupation troops left on 25 October that year.
>>16552951They Finlandized it, no man's land in the Iron Curtain.
>>16552951>give their zone to HungaryWhy would the Soviets give anything to the Hungarians, most of the war the Hungarians were fighting with the Nazis.
>>16555332Then they could create an epic Communist Republic of the Danube, it's in hoi4, tag switch a province to kuk and you'll see, pretty cool stuff.
>>16555332>Why would the Soviets give anything to the Hungarians, They gave land to the Bulgarians so why not?
>>16555328Was it really? Some sources say it was still more pro-western.
>>16555332They would have given it to the Hungarian People's Republic, their ally (read: serf), and not to the fascist Kingdom of Hungary.
TOTAL. GERM. ANNIHILATION. AND. HUMILIATION.
>>16555328Finland wasn't no man's land, it was in the Soviet sphere of influence and had to tow the line. >>16556592It was a neutral, democratic, capitalist country. The Russians planned on invading it in case of war with the west.
