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45-89 was completely about Soviet neutralization of Germany as a threat. Stalin and subsequent leaders feared that if they ever took their boot off the throat of Germany that WWIII was an inevitability. Stalin's original idea was to leave Germany as an officially neutral country, with US and Soviet Union as guarantors of its security.The US always viewed this as a ruse to get the US to pull its troops out (probably correctly). Of course we can go back in history to the beginning of time, but in a real sense, divided Germany was just an extension of WWII, as the whole reason it became divided was that a final peace deal couldn't be reached, and in fact wasn't reached until after reunification.