![]() Furthermore, the Red Army, unlike the US army, was not demobilised at the end of the war. ![]() The USSR also offered an ideological, economic and social model extending as never before to the rest of Europe. The country was given a new lease of life by its heroic resistance to the enemy, exemplified by the victory at Stalingrad. The USSR came out of the war territorially enlarged and with an aura of prestige from having fought Hitler’s Germany. Two blocs developed around the Soviet Union and the United States, with other countries being forced to choose between the two camps. ![]() The major European powers that had been at the forefront of the international stage in the 1930s were left exhausted and ruined by the war, setting the scene for the emergence of two new global superpowers. ![]() The end of the Second World War did not signal a return to normality on the contrary, it resulted in a new conflict. ![]()
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