Stalin, the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1929 to 1953), made the communist government in Poland. They were expanding their buffer zones.
Stalin called for a friendly, socialist government installed in Poland under the leadership of the Lublin Poles. He opposed a role in Poland’s future for the London Poles, whom he regarded as puppets of Winston Churchill.
Stalin also wanted parts of eastern Poland added to the USSR to provide a buffer area to absorb a possible attack from Germany in the future.
As for the Eastern Europe, Stalin believed that, since the Soviet Union had driven the German Army out of region, it should be allowed to decide how the countries in this region would be governed.
These countries would also serve as buffer states to protect the USSR from future attacks. He noticed that the United States and Britain had established a government in Italy without consulting the Soviet Union.
Stalin thought Roosevelt and Churchill were hypocritical to insist on free elections in Eastern Europe when Britain did not grant free elections in its colonies and the United States denied the vote to Southern blacks.
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