@blablarg18 The Soviet Union, territorially, was the Russian Empire, ie countries invaded and controlled by Russia against their will. Russia (because that was who controlled the USSR) signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and invaded Poland with Germany and then massacred 22,000 members of the Polish military and intellegentsia in order to wipe out resistance to Soviet domination. The USSR invaded Finland, which was independent and German-free at that point, in November of 1939. Stalin was more than happy to carve up Europe with his buddy Hitler until Adolf changed the game.
If what you say is true, that the USSR was saving Estonia from the Nazis, why were they bombing residential areas and cultural institutions? Why was Estonia, and the Baltics and the former Warsaw Pact members, not given their independence after the war? Because RUSSIA was re-establishing their empire, just as Putin is trying to do now.
It is true that countries in this region often sided with Germany or the Russians hedging their bets which would be most beneficial for them. But they were literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. They goal, however, was the same: independence. Just as Ukraine is doing now.
I highly recommend you come to this part of the world and talk to people about the Russians. You are either incredibly ignorant of history, or a Putin-loving apologist.