Which of these was Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's primary goal during negotiations with Britain and the United States at Yalta and Potsdam? Answer

A redrawing the map of Europe on the basis of self-determination

B punishing Germany by dividing it into four permanent occupation zones

securing foreign aid from the United States to help rebuild the Soviet Union

D establishing a buffer zone of friendly communist states to protect the Soviet Union

D)establishing a buffer zone of friendly communist states to protect the Soviet Union

Explanation:

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin can be regarded as Georgian revolutionary and also a Soviet politician. He ruled the Soviet Union between the year 1927 to the year 1953. One of his primary goal during negotiations with Britain and the United States at Yalta and Potsdam was establishment of a buffer zone of friendly communist states to protect the Soviet Union

(d) rivers.

explanation:

civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish. also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. this allowed them to support farming. this is especially true of the nile river, which flooded the same time each year.