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The red army barred the burden of war the soviets suffered the larger loss of resources, people and equipment.as the war worsened America declared it's unprepared for war and doesn't get immediately involved in the war till 1944, singling out the soviets.soviets union holds their own just when the war started to look grim soviets pushed germany's advance all the way back to Berlin and capture it. After that truman ends the war in August 1945 with the atomic bomb which starts the cold war . TWO superpowers with opposing views (communism & capitalism).

Red army originally was established as a means to protect the soviet people from the old bolsheviks during the october revolution. So as ww2 began the soviet union signed an anti-war pact with germany in august 1939 for a 4 year time period. why would germany and russia have an agreement like this ? well soviets tested their air force against germany’s during the spanish civil war and russia lost its planes and men . Stalin realized that the military he had now was weak and need to improve before the next war broke out. So he needed time to prepare his armies,then in 1941 germany invaded russia and Russia had 4.8 million soldiers and another 1.5 million stationed in the western fronts . Germany started Operation Barbarossa (a plan where germany splits its army in three and simultaneously invade the different major cities in the soviet union Leningrad,Moscow and Kiev.) on july 22 1941 and by july 1 germany captured riga dvinsk lvov and minsk.on july 3 stalin put the scorched earth policy in place which soldiers and civilians would burn anything that can be of use to the german army food shelter crops bridges roads,etc. In september 1941 german forces moved deep into russia c...

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...iralization of germany the marshall plan was very successful western europe passed production levels they had before ww2.Stalin however didn’t approve of the marshall plan and IMF. Later stalin built something like a buffer for invading countries and capitalism and this so called iron curtain divided communist + capitalist countrys east and western europe .

The red army fought mostof ww2 and took on nearly all of germanys troops.and after the loss in resources and man power soviets still pushed germans from moscow to berlin and end their front of the war . Truman ends his front with the atomic bomb even after the war ussr and us had conflicting ideas on how europe should be run and how germany sholud be dealt with. the amplified the mistrust that the soviets had with the us a war of ideas what was best for the free world capitalism and free trade or comminism.

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