what music can i use for soviet union and eastern Europe between 1945-1970(cold war and postwar(WWII) changes)

Question

well im making a powerpoint and it needs music(around 4 mins) and it has to be set with the mood of during that time period.



a small overview:

by the end of wwii the soviet army occupied all of eastern europe and the balkans excep for yogoslavia, greece, and albania

first stallin started heavy industrylization after wwii and lauched sputnik 1

after stalin died Khrushcev took over starting the de-stalinization process where he losseed government controls.

afterwards poland, hungary, and czechoslovakia tried to break away from the soviet union but were stopped/or brought back by the soviet union, breaking the countries dreams of independence.

Answer 1

Hmmm, maybe try finding the soundtrack to the 1990 movie "The Hunt for Red October." While not all of it may fit what you're looking to do, some of it should.

Answer 2

They wouldn't have gotten very far. While the Red Army fielded huge numbers of powerful heavy tanks, superior to most of what the allies had, by 1945, Russia had been devastated and had suffered over 20 million casualties. Stalin was beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel for both manpower and resources. It's one thing to overwhelm the weakened Wehrmacht with 5 to 1 or even 10 to 1 odds, but quite another to take on a huge, mobile, aggressive and well armed and supplied foe at considerably less than 2 to 1 superiority. The Western Allies had 115 divisions in northwest Europe, 25 of them armored. Each division had approximately the strength of a Soviet army corps, i.e. about 20,000 men. They were well trained, well armed, battle hardened veterans. The Western Allied forces also had a huge air force backing them, which would have quickly won air superiority and then found a lot of easy targets in the Soviet tanks and artillery. And don't forget the astonishingly huge industrial capacity of an intact United States. The nuclear option probably wouldn't have been necessary.

Answer 3

Michael Jackson - Redeeming Eastern Europe (History Teaser) Awesome music and video. Will give you an idea.

Answer 4

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor