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Position of power
A Soviet armoured division advances along the river Oder into Germany in January- By the time the leaders met in Yalta, the Red Army had occupied much of
eastern Europe and was within striking distance of Berlin, giving Stalin a strong
bargaining position at his meetings with Churchill and Roosevelt, and playing to his
belief that “whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system”