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.

In the Soviet Occupation Zone of post-war Germany, the Soviets set up ten NKVD-run " special camps " subordinate to the gulag.

* 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.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

Kulaks (; " fist ", by extension " tight-fisted "; kurkuls in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts in Ukrainian contexts ) were a category of relatively affluent farmers in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union.

Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (; – 29 March 1970 ) was a Soviet filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (; – 15 March 1938 ) was a Russian Marxist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician.

The Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army (; RKKA ) started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918 – 1922.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; – 9 February 1984 ) was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (; – 1 December 1934 ), born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967 ) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in the first group of cosmonauts selected in 1960.

Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (; ) ( — December 9, 1970 ) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent.

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (; ; – March 5, 1966 ), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (, ), was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (; ) ( July 22, 1895 – September 15, 1975 ) was a Soviet aerospace engineer.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (; – 8 November 1986 ) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium ( Politburo ) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev.

Babi Yar (;, Babyn Yar ) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (; 9 January 1864 – 30 May 1926 ) was a Soviet / Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.