Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. ... Britain Prime Minister Winston S. ... Churchill called the "Iron Curtain" a separation of the European continent into competing political, military, and economic blocs and the area controlled by the Soviet Union. ... While still a young revolutionary. ...
There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... To do this Stalin had to secure more power, because to reunite the party, it needed a lea...
