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What did Stalin want to happen to Germany after WW2? I’ve read in some places that he supported a unified ‘neutral and demiliterised’ Germany so it could pay proper reparations. But in other places I’ve been told he wanted to break the country-up.

Obviously the dream would be a unified socialist Germany within the Soviet block. But assuming the war ends in the same way militarily what was Stalin’s realpolitik aim?
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