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The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed at Potsdam in August 1945 to treat Germany as a single economic unit with some central administrative departments in a decentralized framework.  

The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed at Potsdam in August 1945 to treat Germany as a single economic unit with some central administrative departments in a decentralized framework.  

Soviet policy turned increasingly toward dominating the part of Europe where Soviet armies were present, including eastern Germany. From yje Kremlin's point of view, it was the powerful United States rather than devastated Germany that posed the main long-term military threat to the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted U.S. troops withdrawn from Germany and, imdeed, from all of Europe, and to prevent Germany's integratation into the western political, economic, and military system.  This objective followed the basic line of Soviet foreign policy since the 1920s onward: to hinder a united western front against the  

Soviet policy turned increasingly toward dominating the part of Europe where Soviet armies were present, including eastern Germany. From the Kremlin's point of view, it was the powerful United States rather than devastated Germany that posed the main long-term military threat to the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted U.S. troops withdrawn from Germany and, indeed, from all of Europe, and to prevent Germany's integratation into the western political, economic, and military system.  This objective followed the basic line of Soviet foreign policy since the 1920s: to hinder a united western front against the  

Soviet Union. The policy failed: American troops remained and the western two-thirds of Germany became integrated into a free Europe.

Soviet Union. The policy failed: American troops remained and the western two-thirds of Germany became integrated into a free Europe.