Editing Eastern Bloc (section)

====Asset relocation====
At the same time, at the war's end, the Soviet Union adopted a "[[plunder]] policy" of physically transporting and relocating east European industrial assets to the Soviet Union.<ref name="pearson29">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Pearson|1998|pp=29–30}}</ref> Eastern Bloc states were required to provide coal, industrial equipment, technology, rolling stock and other resources to reconstruct the Soviet Union.<ref name="bideleux461">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Bideleux|Jeffries|2007|p=461}}</ref> Between 1945 and 1953, the Soviets received a net transfer of resources from the rest of the Eastern Bloc under this policy of roughly $14&nbsp;billion, an amount comparable to the net transfer from the United States to western Europe in the [[Marshall Plan]].<ref name="bideleux461"/><ref name="black86">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Black|English|Helmreich|McAdams|2000|p=86}}</ref> "Reparations" included the dismantling of railways in Poland and Romanian reparations to the Soviets between 1944 and 1948 valued at $1.8&nbsp;billion concurrent with the domination of [[SovRoms]].<ref name="2turnock267"/>

In addition, the Soviets re-organised enterprises as [[Joint-stock company|joint-stock companies]] in which the Soviets possessed the controlling interest.<ref name="black86"/><ref name="crampton211">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Crampton|1997|p=211}}</ref> Using that control vehicle, several enterprises were required to sell products at below world prices to the Soviets, such as uranium mines in [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]] and [[East Germany]], coal mines in [[People's Republic of Poland|Poland]], and oil wells in [[People's Republic of Romania|Romania]].<ref name="black87">{{Harvard citation no brackets|Black|English|Helmreich|McAdams|2000|p=87}}</ref>