iew of the Soviet Union. That event would be known as World War II. Stalin personnally led the assault on Germany that eventually resulted in the end of the war. The choice now was what to do with the conquered land. Stalin decided that he wanted the eastern half of Germany while the Americans, British, and French would get the western half. It was with this that East Germany became the Deutsch Demokratik Republik or DDR. Along with its new form of communist government came the Berlin Wall which would be known as symbol of fear and imprisonment of the people all the way up to its destruction in 1989. The other countries liberated by Soviet armies also became influenced and controlled by the communist domination.Needless to say, the west was not happy. It was because of this displeasure that the Soviet Union and the United States would be involved in the Cold War for nearly the next 50 years. Although the U.S.S.R. was now the largest country in the world, the United States was evenly matched with it. The U.S.A.'s citizens were learning to hate the Russians because of Senator McCarthy who wished to persecute all communists in the U.S. Through this continuing rivalry began a nucular arms race that would affect the world's people even today. Along with this started the space race which has rapidly propelled mankind into the future.Would this all last? The answer is no. Some might say that its increasing struggle with the United States and its need for nuclear weapons caused its demise. While others might say it was because of cruel leaders who killed their own citizens. What ever it was, the fact remains that the Soviet Union began to dissolve in September of 1991. President Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the U.S.S.R. ant the time, eased the transition. So it was on December 25, 1991 that the Soviet Union was officialy dismantled and the Russian Federation came into exsistence. Its communist party remains today as a still vivrant source o...
