title: Introduction
abstract: It is well-known that the World War II winners, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Soviet Russia, decided in June 1945 at the Yalta Conference that Europe would be split between political spheres of influence, and in essence, half of the continent was to be left under the domination and political control of the Soviet regime. From outright occupation by the Red Army to the forceful imposition of new political regimes that would not have otherwise been democratically elected, Stalin’s aut