... been kept in complete ignorance by Roosevelt about foreign policy,"3 which meant that Truman was not aware of the secret assurances of security Roosevelt had made to Stalin. His policy towards Soviet Russia, then, was much more severe than that of Roosevelt. He was quoted as saying "We must stand up to the Russians...We have been too easy with them ... -communist Polish government, who expelled over five million Germans. This went directly against the agreements made at Yalta earlier in the year.The west viewed this as an act of aggression on the part of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Unio...

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