The Soviet Union didn't join the war until 1941 because of its non-aggression pact with Germany, and so was not the most reliable ally. After being attacked they were antagonistic with regards to the tardiness of the Allied response. Soviet-U.S. relations were always in flux and went from Soviet-Nazi non-aggression, to the "The Grand Alliance" which defeated Germany, to a quarrelling group of experienced statesmen quarrelling over the dishevelled remains. Despite initial efforts at Soviet-U.S. co-operation at Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (August 1945), it became certain to the Soviets that doctrinal co-operation with the "imperialistic" west in no way fitted in the enforced Marxian-Stalinist doctrine which had become an element of Russian cultural history, deeply entrenched by the end of the
The Soviet Union didn't join the war until 1941 because of its non-aggression pact with Germany, and so was not the most reliable ally. After being attacked they were antagonistic with regards to the tardiness of the Allied response. Soviet-U.S. relations were always in flux and went from Soviet-Nazi non-aggression, to the "The Grand Alliance" which defeated Germany, to a quarrelling group of experienced statesmen quarrelling over the dishevelled remains. Despite initial efforts at Soviet-U.S. co-operation at Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (August 1945), it became certain to the Soviets that doctrinal co-operation with the "imperialistic" west in no way fitted in the enforced Marxian-Stalinist doctrine which had become an element of Russian cultural history, deeply entrenched by the end of the