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no, american troops and russian troops met in Berlin
Stalin did react to the invasion of the Germans. He sent troops he just did not send ALL his troops. He held back because he wanted his troops for the eastern front.
During WW2, yes! American and British (and later also French) troops were admitted to West Berlin by the Sovier Union in July 1945.
They prepared really badly...
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no, american troops and russian troops met in Berlin
According to Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin and Eisenhower made a deal. Stalin claimed that he and the late US President Franklin D. Roosevelt had an agreement that Soviet troops should capture Berlin. Khrushchev pointed out that the Americans could have reached Berlin first. The Germans had concentrated the better part of their troops against the Soviet advance in order to surrender the capital to the Americans and the British. Stalin cited a letter he received from Roosevelt that because the Russians had lost so many lives to the Nazi's that they should be the ones to capture Berlin.
the American, British, and French zones of Germany were unified.
In 1948 and 1949, Stalin decided to impose a blockade on West Berlin as part of an overall plan to bring West Berlin, then the whole of the western portion of Germany (still occupied by French, British, and American forces), into union with Soviet-controlled East Germany. By closing land-access to West Berlin, Stalin considered that the city would soon require Soviet assistance and thereby come under Soviet control.
Eisenhower is the one who said, "you refuse to withdraw troops from West Berlin." He said this in reference to Truman who had failed to withdraw US troops from Berlin.
Stalin did react to the invasion of the Germans. He sent troops he just did not send ALL his troops. He held back because he wanted his troops for the eastern front.
During WW2, yes! American and British (and later also French) troops were admitted to West Berlin by the Sovier Union in July 1945.
They prepared really badly...
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Before the Allied invasion of Normandy was planned and executed, Prime Minister Winston Churchill believed it was important to not have Stalin's troops get to Berlin before the US and British armies.With that in mind he believed that by invading Albania from Italy and then marching north would allow the West to beat the USSR to Berlin. Churchill recognized the true nature of Soviet communism and did not ignore the fact that Stalin's non-aggression pact with Hitler led the way for Germany's invasion of Poland while according to that pact, Stalin was allowed to march into Poland's eastern border and occupy Poland. Only when Hitler invaded the USSR did Stalin become am ally of the west.
Nikita Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of troops from Berlin in 1958. Nikita Khrushchev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Berlin was reached by the Russians first in WW2. Russian & US forces came together on the river Elbe. There was much distrust between the Allies at this time, which led to become the 'Cold War'.