But there was nothing the US or the UK could practically do to prevent Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe short of going to war against the Russians because by the time of Yalta,most of Eastern Europe was already occupied by the Red Army.And in fact Roosevelt later gave instructions to Eisenhower for US and British troops to pull back and allow the Russians to take Berlin because he wanted to keep Stalin as a potential future ally.
: second front - and was closer to Berlin and
: he got a better deal (for himself, or rather
: for the Soviet Union) because neither the UK
: nor the US did anything to stop Soviet
: Hegemony in eastern europe -- apart from
: statements by Churchill and Truman
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