The War Damaged by the USSR

-. USSR: After the WW2, the USSR was one of the countries that was most damaged and
ruined, with the number of casualties reaching twenty millions. Waching the lands
being devastated and millions of
its citizens being wounded and dying, Stalin and the USSR was determined to
reinforce its power and prevent any other possible future war. This led to the
difference and conflicts between the opinions of Stalin and Truman
in the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences. Main differences in the conferences were the
treatment of Germany after the WW2 and the extent of the soviet sphere of
influence. Stalin wanted Germany to be utterly
crumbled and destroyed to root out all the possible threats to the USSR. However,
Truman thought that the harsh punishments on Germany and defeated states was the
reason of the outbreak of the WW2,
and also was determined not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Not only that,
but Truman was an extreme capitalist and in other words he was an anti-communist.
He believed that leaving eastern europe
into the influnece of the USSR would lead to the spread of communism. Therefore,
Truman decided to be harsh and uncompromising to Stalin.
In conclusion, the USSR and the USA found great difference bewteen their belief and
also ideology in the conferences. Therefore, the conferences elevated the tension
between the two powers, and contributed
to the new era after the WW2, called the Cold War.