Nonsense.
Russia would not honor the sovereignty & free and fair elections in liberated countries.
In the
February 1945, the
Yalta conference was held between the leaders of the
Soviet Union,
Britain and
America. At the conference, it was agreed that
liberated countries would be given the
right to free and fair elections where they had the choice of which power ruled them. The Soviet Union did not stick to this agreement and instead
rigged elections in
Poland and other countries
forcing a communist government on many European countries. This was seen by the West as an
aggressive expansion tactic and as a way of
creating buffer zones to protect the Soviet Union from the Western powers. This event leads to tension in Europe. The USSR further enhanced tensions by implicating the
Berlin blockade.
The Soviet Union were thought to be at fault for starting the cold war by many historians at the time of the cold war. The reason for this is because the Soviet U...
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