At the Potsdam Conference, Why Did Stalin Reject Free Elections

question 23

Multiple Choice

At the Potsdam Conference, why did Stalin reject free elections in eastern Europe?

• A) He worried that the United States would manipulate the results.
• B) He argued that they would not be impartial because the United States would try to control them.
• C) He worried that the results would be anti-Soviet and destroy his plans of a buffer zone.
• D) He worried they would obligate the Soviet Union to shoulder the cost of war refugees in the region.

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