![]() ![]() The Grand Alliance also had to deal with Hitler’s efforts to sow seeds of doubt by spreading rumours that each of the allies was negotiating a separate peace with the Germans. Within western states there were anti-communists hostile to alliance with the old ideological enemy, while on the Soviet side there were deep suspicions of western capitalist leaders. The three countries had very different socio-political systems and there was a long history of ideological conflict between Soviet communism and western liberal democracy. When the Grand Alliance emerged following the US and Soviet entry into the war in 1941, it was not clear that such an unlikely coalition could survive the vicissitudes of war. It was one the most successful alliances in history. ![]() ![]() The Grand Alliance was willed into existence by its leaders and then sustained through four years of total war. But neither the formation of what Churchill later called the Grand Alliance nor its collapse was inevitable. The alliance was forced into existence by Hitler and fell apart as soon as Nazi Germany was defeated. The alliance of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Unionduring World War II is often presented as a fragile necessity. ![]()
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