This distancing is most clearly depicted in the dealing of numerous national political crisis that unfolded under newly occupied Soviet and Western forces. Elections in war torn Italy and France had lead to massive gains within the Communist parties of each country. However; extending on earlier policies of Stalin, these parties operated with cooperation towards more traditional parties. The French communist leader Maurice Thorez going so far as to wish “the capitalist system to function according to its own laws.” Stalin also advocated for similar positions of reconciliation in Greece and China. The only instances of expansionism was in the occupation of Eastern Europe and North Korea, where a long process of implementing the communist system was beginning. Hardly the aggressive expansion feared by the West before the conclusion of World War II. Nor did the extension of Soviet political power warrant Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, which propagandized and overemphasised communist expansionism, which the work of Vadney looks to
This distancing is most clearly depicted in the dealing of numerous national political crisis that unfolded under newly occupied Soviet and Western forces. Elections in war torn Italy and France had lead to massive gains within the Communist parties of each country. However; extending on earlier policies of Stalin, these parties operated with cooperation towards more traditional parties. The French communist leader Maurice Thorez going so far as to wish “the capitalist system to function according to its own laws.” Stalin also advocated for similar positions of reconciliation in Greece and China. The only instances of expansionism was in the occupation of Eastern Europe and North Korea, where a long process of implementing the communist system was beginning. Hardly the aggressive expansion feared by the West before the conclusion of World War II. Nor did the extension of Soviet political power warrant Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, which propagandized and overemphasised communist expansionism, which the work of Vadney looks to