A negative political effect of World War II was

After World War II, tensions between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies divided Europe into communist-led countries in the East and democratic, Western-aligned countries in the West. This division was a major negative political consequence of the war. The unification of occupied Germany and the decline of Nazism were not negative effects in this sense, and free elections were not widely mandated across postwar Europe.

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