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‘Churchill’s iron curtain speech in March 1946 was largely irrelevant in…

- - - - They generally had disagreements in Postdam over Poland
        
        Czechoslovakia - A coalition government was established in 1945, between 45 and 47, the leader of the Communists Klement Gottwald took over key institutions within the state. By 1948, they demanded a communist takeover. He would seize power in 1948 after a non-communist foreign minister Jan Masaryk alleged committed suicide by jumping out of a window. There would be 3 final investigations into his death from 1948 to the mid 90s, the final concluding that he had been pushed. By the 14th June 1948, the coup de'etat would be complete and Gottwald would assume control.
- - - - the Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination. As a result, the USSR needed to secure its buffer zone in Eastern Europe