Originally Posted by
justTosee
you seem to forget, The ZEROspeaker, that The West also technically allowed eastern europe to be "engulfed" into the URSS :D
So technicallty, there was no clear will, neither any indication, that URSS wanted to "take" anything. Only aggrement with Nazis and later, with the West Allies made it happen.
And since the fall of Communism, no clear intentions either.
So yeah, take back your bases : we also don't need your money-sucking interest here (it will make you more poor and protect our remaining ressources at the same time ) :D