The soviet union was to blame for the Cold War.

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‘The soviet union was to blame for the Cold War.’ How far do you agree with this statement?

To a certain extent I do believe the USSR were to blame for the Cold War , and really this was through no fault of there own. The main reason why the Cold War was started was because of other countries views on the USSR and what the USSR planned to do with Nazi Germany , which they decided upon because of there huge losses in both Wars and the possibility of invasion once again. The USA and USSR were enemies despite the fact that they had fought alongside each other during WWII because of their very different views on how a country should be run. The USA was a capitalist country where business owners could keep the money that made, the people of the nation had a choice and freedom of speech and elections would have more that one political party competing. The USSR was a communist country where the wealth of the country was shared out equally, businesses would have no competition, as there would only be one company for each product and election would only have one political party. However Communism had a huge main flaw and it was that for everyone to be ‘equal’ they obviously should have the same amount of ‘power’ within the country and wealth. This was not the case as the politicians were rich and had more power than everyone else. So were not equal.

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   Amongst these differences they , also had different aims as well , as to what to do with Germany after the WWII. The distrust bettween the USA and USSR emerged very early on, during WWII when the USSR signed the nazi-soviet pact with Germany. This pact stated that no offensive action would be taken between the two sides. The USSR was convinced that it was a neccassery decision as without it Hitler probably would have taken Russia. The soviets slowly created a ‘buffer zone’ between Russia and Great Britain by coverting Western European countries to communism using what ...

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