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Whats holding America back from confronting Communist Russia after World War 2?

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Whats holding America back from confronting Communist Russia after World War 2?

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I assume you meant, what held America (and Britain) back from confronting Soviet Russia immediately after the military defeat of Hitler. The short and simple answer is, Stalin had an army in place, occupying Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, eastern Germany, etc., that was quite a bit larger and more formidable than the ones the Anglo allies had facing it. In fact, German tactics in the last months of the war was to throw everything against Stalin, while scarcely resisting the Americans and British at all, because the Germans were terrified of what the Russians were doing to German civilians and prisoners of war in the territory they had conquered, and they viewed the Americans and British as ‘civilized,’ in fact as largely Aryan cultures. (When Berlin finally fell, to the Russians as agreed at Yalta, while the Anglos waited nearby, it appears that nearly every woman in the city between 12 and 60 was raped by the triumphant Russian troops, an episode that is still kept mostly quiet in G

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