East Esceosia

East Esceosia, formally the People's Republic of Esceosia or PRE (Esceosian: Iszkoszi Demokrat Köztársaság or IDK), was a state in the Eurasian Pact during the Cold War period. From 1948 to 1974, it administered the region of Esceosia that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II—the Esceosian Soviet Occupation Zone of the Krizina Agreement.

The People's Republic of Esceosia was established in the Soviet Zone, while the Kingdom was established in the three western zones giving back the Iványi family the throne who fled during the start of the war to America. East Esceosia was often described as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Soviet occupation authorites began transferring administrative responsibility to Esceosian communist leaders in 1947, and the PRE began to function as a state on 20 August 1948. Soviet forces, however, remained in the country throughout the Cold War until the reunification of Esceosia. The PRE established the Ministry of State Security, or "Ávmi", which aided the Soviet Army in suppresssing uprisings. Until 1974, the PRE was governed by the Esceosian Socialist Party (ESP), though other parties nominally participated in its alliance organisation, the Nation front of Democratic Esceosia.

The economy was centrally planned, and increasingly state-owned. Prices of basic goods and services were set by central government planners, rather than rising and falling through market forces. Although the PRE had to pay substantial war reparations to the USSR, it become one of the most successful economies in the Eastern Bloc. Nonetheless it did not match the economic growth of West Esceosia. Emigration to the West was a significant problem—as many of the emigrants were young well-educated people, it further weakened the state economically compared to its werstern counterpart.

In 1973, numerous social and political forces in the PRE and abroad led to the collapse of the East Esceosian Government and the emergence of a government committed to liberalization. The following year open elections were held, and international negotiation led to the signing of the Esceosian unification treaty on the status and borders of Esceosia. The PRE was dissolved and Esceosia was unified on 7 November 1974.