Can’t blame him there. I don’t think the Soviets had any way of knowing that the west actually didn’t have that many nukes and that it would take them a while to make more.
Even then, they were exhausted and suffered enormous casualties. No way Stalin was going to convince his people that they needed to spill even more blood to liberate the rest of Europe. Especially since most of Western Europe would just end up resenting Soviet occupation.
Can’t blame him there. I don’t think the Soviets had any way of knowing that the west actually didn’t have that many nukes and that it would take them a while to make more.
Even then, they were exhausted and suffered enormous casualties. No way Stalin was going to convince his people that they needed to spill even more blood to liberate the rest of Europe. Especially since most of Western Europe would just end up resenting Soviet occupation.