"The Soviet Union should be responsible for the Cold War, instead of the USA." How far do you agree to this statement?

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After the world war, the world saw a phenomenon that has shaped the world to what we see today, an ice cold relationship between USA and the communist USSR, otherwise known as the cold war. Traditionalists have also thought that the soviets were to be blamed, while the revisionists have always blamed the USA and post revisionists feel that both parties have to be blamed. So who should be blamed for starting the cold war in the end? To a small extent, I feel that the Soviet Union should be responsible for the Cold War. Firstly, traditionalists think that Stalin’s aggressive foreign policy played a part in contributing to the Cold War. From 1945-1947, the communism spread throughout Eastern Europe – ...

... after the Berlin Blockade. AS a direct product of USA, NATO formalized and institutionalized with American protection of Western European independence, and offered protection over non-communist states. With the formation of NATO, the USA introduced its military might as a threat to Russia. More importantly, the NATO had various countries adhering to regard an attack on any one of them as an attack on them all, placing their defense forces under a joint NATO command organization which would coordinate the defense of the West. Abandoning traditional policy of ‘no entangling alliances’, the pledging of Western nations in advance to military action was perceived to be a challenge to Stalin. Tension is exacerbated as the formation

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