After the war ended, Soviet Union seized all of Nissan ’ s Manchuria assets, while the Occupation Forces made use of over half of the Yokohama plant.

On 3 July, American troops left the city and the city became part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and East Germany.

* Soviet Occupation Day ( Georgia )

The name Sowjetische Besatzungszone ( Soviet Occupation Zone, often abbreviated to SBZ ) was used by those who wanted to indicate that East Germany lacked sovereignty, whereas others used Ostzone or der Osten ( Eastern Zone or the East ) to avoid the actual name of the state.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

As a result, most of Germany's central territories became the Sowjetische Besatzungszone ( SBZ, Soviet Occupation Zone ).

In eastern Germany, the Soviet Occupation Zone ( SBZ – Sowjetische Besatzungszone ) comprised the five states ( Länder ) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia.

* Soviet Occupation Day ( Latvia )

* Soviet Occupation Day ( Moldova )

Post-war the area was part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and many of the remaining pre-World War II city buildings were destroyed, with only a few buildings near the cathedral restored to their pre-war state.

Since the American, British and Soviet Occupation Zones converged there, people theoretically only had to walk a few paces across sector boundaries to avoid the respective Police officials.

Soviet prison doors on display in the Museum of Occupation, Tallinn

In the Soviet Zone of Occupation, the Soviets forced the Social Democrats to form a common party with the Communists ( Socialist Unity Party of Germany or SED ).

Between 24 August and 26 October 1948 21 transports with in total 42, 094 Germans left the Oblast to the Soviet Occupation Zone.

On July 1, 1945, due to the agreements of the Yalta Conference making Wismar a part of the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, the British troops departed as Soviet troops entered.

During the Occupation of East Poland by the Soviet Union, the Soviets liquidated the Polish state, and a German-Soviet meeting addressed the future structure of the " Polish region.

On November 13, 1945 the British general Colin Muir Barber and the Soviet general major Nikolay Grigoryevich Lyashchenko () signed the Barber Lyashchenko Agreement (, also Gadebusch Agreement ) in Gadebusch, redeploying some municipalities of the Duchy of Lauenburg District and neighbouring Mecklenburg, then part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation.

Schwerin was then in the Soviet Occupation Zone which was to become the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ).

* 1945 Occupation by Soviet Red Army, now part of Poland

All these objects were taken by the Soviet Occupation Army in 1946 and have disappeared in the Soviet Union.

In October 1947, the Soviets decided to resettle 30, 000 Germans from Kaliningrad Oblast by trains to the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany ( later GDR ).

Ostzone ( Eastern Zone ) or Soviet Zone were two surrogate names for East Germany that were often used colloquially.

De jure, the German Reich did not cease to exist in 1945, but after four years of Allied occupation, three German states were formed inside of Germany as a whole in 1949: the Federal Republic of Germany ( then commonly known as West Germany ) in the former U. S., and British zones of occupation, the Saar in French zone, until 1957, when it joined the FRG, and the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) in the former Soviet Zone.

The western zones controlled by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States were merged, in May 1949, to form the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesrepublik Deutschland ); in October 1949, the Soviet Zone became the German Democratic Republic ( Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR ).

A legal expert produced a legal opinion setting out that the Soviet declaration ( initiating diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic ) had finally separated the Soviet Zone from the three western zones, but that, since it was under the control of the Soviet Union, it had no separate state government and therefore did not meet the minimum requirements of statehood.

Between 1945 and 1982 Lauenburg served as West German inner German border crossing for cars travelling along Bundesstraße 5 between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany ( till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the British zone of occupation ( till 1949 ) and thereafter the West German Federal Republic of Germany.

In 1949, the Soviet Zone of Allied-occupied Germany became a socialist state called the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ).

The family home in Kassel had been requisitioned by the Americans, and the Rundstedt estate in Saxony-Anhalt was in the Soviet Zone and had been confiscated.

However, the rapid post-war economic development of the East Asian Tigers, India, the People's Republic of China, along with the collapse of the Soviet Union, have loosened European and North American influence in Asia, generating speculation today about the possible re-emergence of India and China as superpowers.

Various foreign scientific discoveries and inventions ( such as the Wright Brothers ' airplane ) were attributed to Russians in post-war Soviet propaganda.

In the post-war era, the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Red Army and NATO further developed the equipment and doctrine for mechanized infantry.

In post-war Germany, in the absence of a nuncio in Moscow, Pacelli worked also on diplomatic arrangements between the Vatican and the Soviet Union.

The International Colloquium on Function Theory in Helsinki in 1957, directed by Nevanlinna, was the first post-war occasion when the Soviet mathematicians could contact their Western colleagues in person.

Decolonization in the world was contrasted by the Soviet Union's successful post-war expansionism.

Many of the country's largest firms were nationalized in the early post-war period to protect them from Soviet takeover as war reparations.

This was in line with the Soviet post-war policy regarding various relocated industrial operations.

Molotov was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 ( also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ), after Britain and France repeatedly failed to join the Soviets in an anti-Nazi alliance, was involved in post-war negotiations where he became noted for his diplomatic skills, and knew of the Katyn massacre committed by the Soviet authorities.

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

By 1943, the USSR was confident in final victory and new aim of Soviet strategy became securing a favourable post-war Europe.

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4 – 11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.

All three leaders ratified previous agreements about the post-war occupation zones for Germany: three zones of occupation, one for each of the three principal Allies: The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In post-war years attention turned to attempts by the Soviet Union and the Comintern to surreptitiously support revolutionary activities within Britain, and MI5's expertise combined with the early incompetence of the Soviets meant the bureau was successful once more in correctly identifying and closely monitoring these activities.

Soman was given the identifier GD post-war ( GC was already in medical use ) when the information relating to soman was recovered by the Soviet Union from its hiding place in a mine.

* The Avtozavodsky district of Tolyatti is a planned industrial city of Soviet post-war modernism.

Another post-war activity was Huxley's attack on the Soviet politico-scientist Trofim Lysenko, who had espoused a Lamarckian heredity, made unscientific pronouncements on agriculture, used his influence to destroy classical genetics in Russia and to move genuine scientists from their posts.

The German population who had not fled during the war were subsequently expelled and forced westward into post-war Germany and replaced with Poles, many of whom had been expelled themselves from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

SIS operations against the USSR were extensively compromised by the fact that the post-war Counter-Espionage Section, R5, was headed for two years by an agent working for the Soviet Union, Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby.

On the outside, it is decorated with sculptures of soldiers, workers and aviators, while inside walls and ceilings feature wreaths, bay leaves and stars, and until early 1990s, the Soviet hammer and sickle, typical decor for Soviet public buildings of early post-war years.

In post-war stories it has all the characteristics of the Soviet military.

The Avtozavodsky district of Tolyatti is a planned industrial city of Soviet post-war modernism.