Stalin

• by Potsdam, convinced that USA & allies were potential rivals for dominance in Europe 
• reinforced his obsession with Soviet security
• made it necessary for the Red Army’s continued presence in EE and intensification of programme of installing pro-comm regimes in the liberated states.
• time for co-operation from JS had now passed.
• Germany agreements were acceptable to Stalin, but he had a clear and unspoken alternative agenda for the rest of Europe. 
• Needed to ensure that the EE states formed the basis of the USSR’s long-term security system.
• Required these states to have a comparable political and economic systems to the USSR.
• Strength came from unity and a common identity. 
• Soon came to see the USA as having an anti-Soviet agenda.