With the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviets joined the Western alliance in the battle against fascist Germany, Italy and Japan. Moscow’s ultimate goals, however, remained the same. This was apparent at the Yalta Conference (in Soviet Crimea on the Black Sea ) Where Stalin, U.S President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom met to discuss the postwar future of Europe.The Soviet Union had suffered more than twenty million dead and vast destruction of property as well.It was not surprising, therefore, that Stalin argued Eastern Europe should fall Within Moscow’s sphere of influence.