Sentence:  With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2 , - `` The House I Live In '' , `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad of a Soldier '' - we had every right to <WSD>expect</WSD> a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day the War Ended '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  regard something as probable or likely