Was Britain under strong Soviet political pressure?

This cartoon by the British cartoonist Illingworth was published in June 1947. He thought Britain was under strong Soviet political pressure. In this cartoon Stalin tries to place Soviet flags on Europe. Azerbaijan presented like Soviet Russia which actually was not Soviet Russia but one of the Soviet republics. Russia was also one of them. He shows that only  countries like France and Sweden are not yet decided, which are marked with question marks.