Having established Communist governments throughout Eastern Europe Stalin now wanted to tighten his control on each country.

He did this by using Cominform and Comecon.

Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) 1947

This co-ordinated governments in Eastern Europe.

Office moved from Yugoslavia top Romania after Yugoslavia would not do as Stalin said.

Ran meetings and gave out instructions to Communist governments as to what they must do.

Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) 1949

This co-ordinated industries and trade of Eastern Europe.

The idea of it was to trade with each other and not the West.

It favoured USSR produced goods and guaranteed a cheap supply of raw materials for the USSR.

Set up the bank for Socialist countries.