Photo at right, from the National Archives and Public Domain: "2nd Lt. William Robertson, US Army and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Red Army, shown in front of sign East Meets West symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany."

Had the U.S. and Great Britain demanded that Stalin not take control of any section(s) of Berlin after the War's end, would we have the World we live in today? Had we emboldened the U.S.S.R. and now Russia?