advocacy or political independence for a particular country
Answer: they had come under the threat of communism.
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The commitment of the Truman administration to “contain” communism was focused on the Soviet threat to western Europe. During the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration expanded America’s objective from protecting a divided Europe to combating Communist tyranny around the globe. To the Eisenhower administration, merely “containing” communism was no longer enough: the explicit objective became a “policy of boldness” designed to “roll back” communism around the world.
Answer:
One of the devices Stalin used to "protect" Belorussia (and the rest of the Soviet Union) against possible Western influences was a program of intensive Russification, thus creating a cordon sanitaire for Russia along the Polish border.
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