Foreign Policy under Stalin

Abstract

During World War II, Stalin was popularly referred to in the west as ‘Uncle Joe’, and hailed as a great ally. But many western politicians remembered clearly his unscrupulous and opportunist conduct in the 1930s. He was a man easy for the west to distrust, and he also had his own profound suspicions of the west. In the pre-war world, many of the hostilities that developed in the post-war world were established.