Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw , 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster