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Why were these early successes followed only by setbacks? Why did Stalin end up with exactly what he had sought to avoid: the Western Zones’ integration into an American-dominated power bloc, and linked with that, the establishment of a second German state, for which the only remaining practical option was organization along Soviet lines?
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Loth, W. (1998). First Setbacks. In: Stalin’s Unwanted Child. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26400-1_2
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