... to make the Soviet Union dominant in Europe. Even during the war, he made inflexible demands of his new allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments ... surrender and the end of World War II. Throughout his meetings with the two western leaders, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Stalin pushed for military and economic assistance for the Soviet Union while demanding that they recognize Soviet dominance o...

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... finally embrace democracy after 70 years of communism. Democracy is mostly seen by Western scholars as, in the words of Winston Churchill, "the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" (Churchill, 1947). The famous political scientist Robert Dahl argues that here are a number of (highly controversial) advantages that a democratic system has ... ...

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... government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop on and caper like troops of ferocious Baboons." The allies felt ... from and by Moscow. Stalin may have intended to use this bloc as an enormous "buffer" zone for defence. To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst f...

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