I believe a field of blooming flowers would best describe this. flowers are associated with growth. A flower that is blossoming signify growth.
It was a bad decision on his part. Some may say his decision was good at the beginning but ultimately he made the choice to stay at war which led to a bad turn of events. Millions of dollars were spent on this and it wasn't even really successful, so I believe that was a poor decision.
Russia had no secure border. Following <span>the devastation faced by Soviet Union in WWII, they wanted to push the border away from Kiev, from Moscow & Minsk
</span><span>The Yalta Agreement between FDR, Churchill & Stalin had laid out the spheres of influence that each of the Allied countries would have, and the satellite countries all fell under the Soviet sphere. </span>
