Who caused the Cold War Veeky Forums? Was it the Americans trying to dominate the world economy? Or the Soviets and their intrinsically expansionist ideology and tyrannical leader?
Who/what was to blame?
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Levi Ward
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Ryder Allen
You know (((who)))
Adrian Morgan
Soviets of course when they rigged elections in Eastern European countries and basically occupied them.
Carson Hall
Couldn't you say the same with Americans and Central American countries
Nathan Jones
Doesn't count because it happened during Cold War and that was the norm.
Point is that OP asked who started it and Soviets were definitely the aggressor
Jason Martinez
(((allies)))
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Nathan Mitchell
Stalin began the cold war when he refused to allow democracy in eastern Europe. The brutal suppression of dissent by the Soviets in eastern Europe is what prompted Churchill to give his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.
Jason Sanchez
>democracy
Lol so that is the western shield so they can commit atrocities
Angel Gomez
shut the fuck up tankie
I'd rather live in a democratic society than a totalitarian oppressive commie regime that restricts all my personal liberties and freedom.
Ryder King
A case may be made that the Cold War was a reaction from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviets saw that they were behind technologically, and didn't want a WWIII on their homeland.
At any rate, the Soviets can hardly be blamed for wanting an Iron Curtain. After all, they were the ones who suffered millions of casualties in the first two world wars.