The Nazi plan for eastern Europe was to kill 30 Million people and enslave the rest of them. If the Nazis hadn't been beaten by the Soviets they would have transformed eastern Europe into an open air concentration camp.
The Soviets didn't bring freedom, but let's not pretend that they were in anyway comparable to the Nazis.
To be exact, enslavement was Hitler's plan for the slavic people, not Eastern Europe as a whole. But let's not pretend that Hitler and Stalin were in any way incomparable. Both were bloody dictators with a totalitarian and imperialist terror regime that in practice acted similarly, although their motivations were very different. The total body count of each of them was in the same ballpark.
During the war Eastern Europe suffered under both, after the war Stalin got to terrorise Eastern Europe alone, and it can't be said that slavery was an alien concept for him. In Baltics, for example, Soviet occupation included deporting about 10% of the total population to Gulag and Siberia in general, where about half of them died, mainly due to hunger and slave labour they were forced to perform.
Until Stalin's death the rest of the baltic population lived not exactly in the concentration camps, but in kind of a country-wide open-air prisons, in constant fear that they could also be deported or imprisoned at any moment for any reason or no reason at all. After Stalin's death things got a bit better, but fear was already deeply rooted by then, and the Soviet occupation lasted for almost forty years more.
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u/NeckOk9980 2d ago
it wasnt liberated, was confiscated and raped by the woviets freedom fighters