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While the U.S. represented democracy, individual liberty and capitalism, the U.S.S.R. was committed to the spread of the communist revolution among the 'down-trodden' masses of the world

The USSR had already established a pro-Communist provisional government in Poland before the end of the Second World War and the Communists had already gained control of Albania and Yugoslavia in 1944 and 1945 through overt propaganda and covert operations the other being 'deterrence'

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