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: However, Stalin had the power to start a
: 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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: 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.
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