Please tell if the past perfect serves as a background for the next sentence or is it a flashback after the first sentence? There were no obvious alternatives then. Much of the continent had been ravaged by World War II. What the Red Army touched, the Soviets mostly turned into political satellites.
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It serves as a background story for the next sentence.
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It serves as a background story for the next sentence.
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