Akey factor contributing to the development of the cold war in eastern europe was
a. the domination of austrian and italian politics by popular pro-communist parties.
b. the threat to continued instability by the rise of neo-fascist parties.
c. the withdrawal of victorious russian armies from lands conquered during the campaign against nazism. and. stalin's desire to establish pro-soviet governments in the countries of eastern europe to serve as a buffer zone against possible western attacks on the soviet union.
e. raids by american troops pursuing german nazi war criminals into areas of the former third reich under russian control.