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== =Soviet Concerns= After WWII the USSR was particularly troubled by a feeling that they were going to be invaded again. At Yalta, Stalin wanted to make sure that Germany was divided and weak so that it could not attack them again. Every time Russia had been invaded, it was through Poland. Stalin wanted to protect Russia by making a buffer of Poland and other countries between Germany. If Stalin could pressure or encourage these countries to be communist, they would support him in times of need. The Soviet leaders were all communist and believed that Communism was the the most superior government or economic system. These leaders also believed that Communism would one day over-power Capitalism. A big factor in why America and Russia never got along during the Cold War was because of Stalin's theory that Capitalist countries would eventually try to destroy all other Communist countries. One might say that the Soviet Union was a little paranoid.