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Yalta Potsdam


             Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. The bitter struggle for survival of the Soviet Union in its early stage, in particular the Civil War was hindered by the American and Western involvement. Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. Soviets believed that the West was hostile and aimed to destroy communism. There was mutual suspicion concerning ideology. The West believed that Marxism-Leninism was expansionist by nature. The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. This contributed to suspicions; the West was not certain whether Stalin was motivated by this Marxist-Leninist ideology. The clash between capitalism and communism seamed inevitable. The mistrust deepened with conflicts during the war. Stalin urged Churchill and Roosevelt to open a second front. The U.S. did not open a second front in Western Europe early enough; millions of Russian soldiers died fighting the Nazi armies alone until mid-1994. Stalin alleged that the Western allies were deliberately holding back a second front to weaken the Soviet Union. The Stalin Hitler Pact of 1939 did not help the Soviet Union in gaining trust from the West either. US extended Lend-Lease arrangements onto the Soviet Union but rejected requests that this should go beyond the end of hostilities and Soviet requests for a loan were also ignored. Stalin understood that the United States wanted to cripple the Soviet Union by weakening its economy. .
             In February 1945, in an atmosphere of mutual mistrust and with the war in Europe coming to a close, heads of the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, met in Yalta, to finalize wartime military strategy and plan for the postwar world.


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