ABSTRACT
In the immediate aftermath of World War II it became quickly apparent that a new political landscape was in place. The big political background was changing by the hour in the post-WWII world. Back in 1947, roughly a year after Churchill's remarks, Foreign Affairs published "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" by George F. Kennan. Preceding modern telecommunication technologies by several decades, political alliances and nations' destinies were settled in a rather short period of time. Through WWII across the CEE the rise of the domestic National Fronts, modeled as national-democratic coalitions, rested upon solid grassroots resistance against the Nazi threat. Cominform, or the Communist Information Bureau, was the official international political forum for the national communist parties. The Stalin Note was a formal proposal presented by the USSR to the Western allied powers in March of 1952, advocating reunification and neutralization of Germany. Zauberman estimated EE's share of gross capital formation to gross national product to reach record levels.
