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Liberating Czechoslovakia wasn't really Soviet objective, its objective was to defeat Germans. Soviet union was comparably evil in that time, invading inocent countries like Finland, Baltic countries, Poland, using forced labor camps (supposedly for criminals, but hey, a criminal was everybody disagreeing with communists). Russians only joined Allies once they were attacked, and they were begging badly for help. If Russians left after 1945 peacefully and didn't meddle into affairs of eastern european countries, mutual relations would be much better now. I wonder whether I will ever get an apology from Russians for all the devastation after 1945.
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Russia occupied some territories to protect itself from possible invasion once again. If it wouldn't, we could have WW3.
Poland in 17 century, Sweden in 18th century, France in 19th century, Germany in 20th century, they are all tried to occupy Russia. There wasn't any single century without some european country trying to occupy Russia. History shows that every significant european power tries to occupy Russia.
History taught Russians that it is better to occupy than to be occupied.