Soviet-East European Relations

The National Counci L for Soviet and East European

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The National Counci L for Soviet and East European Researc

The National Counci L for Soviet and East European Researc

The National Counci L for Soviet and East European Researc

The Dynamics of Soviet–East German Relations in the Early Cold War

The two states that emerged from the defeated Germany were central to the development of the cold war. Rapidly evolving from defeated objects of Four Power policy, the two Germanys became important actors in their own right on the front line of the cold war. Both superpowers initially treated their part of Germany as war booty to be plundered and kept weak, but as the cold war developed, they w...