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During WW II, the Soviet Union was our ally. They moved their armies in from the North and East and we attacked from the West and South. By the war's end they held the eastern part of Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Austria and Czechoslovakia. When the war ended, they set up puppet communist governments , or acknowledged revolutionary governments and kept their troops available in these areas to enforce the power of the governments they set up or acknowledged. When Truman issued his doctrine, in 1947, the governments of Turkey and Greece were weak and unstable and Communists were trying to take over.

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Junius Weimann

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