... some secret design of providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half of the world.1" These two ideas were, by nature, destined to one day conflict. He predicted the bipolarity struggle but not necessarily the hostility one hundred years earlier. Lenin said that communist revolutions would happen spontaneously. One of Stalin's major flaws was that he discredited this and felt that communism must be a result of coercion. Even Nikita Khrushchev thought that after World War II that Europe would naturally "embrace socialism" while capitalism collapsed. This was never the case, which angered Stalin. The Anglo-American sphere of influence would increase largely by consent, but the Soviets could only maintain themselves by coercion and expansion. This asymmetry would bring the two ideologies into conflict after World War II, not simply because of their nature but also because Stalin was leading one of them. The power ...

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