Why did stalin create a zone of friendly governments along the soviet border?

He wanted to create a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Western Europe for the strategic value of having military alliances in case of a war with the west.

Answer: tokugawa ieyasu (徳川家康, january 31, 1543 – june 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the tokugawa shogunate of japan, which effectively ruled japan from the battle of sekigahara in 1600 until the meiji restoration in 1868.