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smell you'd think that in the wake of World War two

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all of the countries that had been eaten up by Germany Italy in Japan would get [Hitler at a country buffet]

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their old borders back but no instead with the defeat of the Axis powers

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Uncle Joe and his very large mustache stepped in in an attempt to make the

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world look a little more Soviet okay a lot more Soviet when the Russians [Russian Soviets]

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marched East from their homeland in hot pursuit of the Nazi army that had tried [Nazis marching across European map]

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and failed to take them over well they had to cover a lot of ground and once

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they had made it as far west as Berlin they were loved to just turn around and

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head back to Moscow they figured well hey just keep Poland and they'd had half [Nazi's taking pictures in different cities]

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of it to themselves for a while there anyway but also they took over Hungary [world map]

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Romania and eastern Germany furthermore when the Allies sliced and diced Germany

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into for occupation zones the Soviets got the biggest chunk of territory

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well that chunk of territory happened to surround Berlin which was also divvied

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up in two he got it for occupation zones no way that was gonna end up being a

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problem right clearly the Soviets did very very well for themselves in the [European map]

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aftermath of oh wait there's more at the Yalta Conference the US and Great [Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in conference]

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Britain gave the Soviets that go ahead on being part of the new Polish

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government that's right we were totally down with letting the commies insert

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soldiers and government agents into a country that had already had a pretty

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rough going for over a decade the Allies also redrew Poland's boundaries so that

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the poles who were pretty much standing in for the Soviets at this point got a [European map]

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great big piece of Germany millions of Germans were consequently made refugees [Germans moving house]

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but nobody cared about that they were all Nazis anyway right let's just shoot

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him oh also in the meantime the Soviets were creeping into power in the Baltic

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States even though Uncle Joe swore on his mother's Bible that they would never

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do such a naughty and undemocratic thing so yeah the Soviets cleaned up in Europe [Stalin overlooking city]

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and finished the war with oh wait what there's more Oh Uncle Joe you sly devil [Stalin at country buffet]

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over on the other side of the world Stalin and his Soviet forces were making [Asian map]

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their on Manchuria Oh and Korea to see when

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the Russians took over Manchuria from Japan in 1945 they kept right on going [Stalin riding a tank]

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all the way to the 38th parallel that thing that's the 38 the other allied

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powers were perfectly cool with this by the way these events would have major [Truman and Churchill relaxing on the beach]

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repercussions for Korea to East Asia region and the world as a whole both in [old war photographs]

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the short and long term however in 1945 what it meant was that Koreans north of

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the 38th parallel became communist while Koreans south of the line got to enjoy [Koreans meeting along the dividing line]

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democracy look at Korea at night today for a picture of how that looks yeah not

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a lot of smog in North Korea there okay Stalin buddy are you finally finished

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trying to take over the world no you got your eyes on Cuba huh well we can't

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blame you they do have great cigars and sandwiches

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