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The Dreyfrit and Stalin's Reluctantness
The Dreyfrit comes from German communists who had fled the Nazis and gone to Russia. They were able to essentially kind of pressure him and say, you know, we're here for you. And that's not a coincidence that those people survived while others didn't. Stalin was always keen to hold on to East Germany as he went into Western Europe.