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Originally posted by MagiK:
Where did you get the idea that a pre-WWII event caused the cold war? From what I have read, the main emphasis for the cold war was Russia's (understandable) fear of invasion by outside forces, and their paranoid need to form a HUGE buffer between them and everyone else and their subsequent land grab that alarmed the west. (oh and the incompatibility of communism and the free western nations)
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I think the Cold War had it's roots long before WW2 started. During the Russian civil war American, British and French troops all made their way onto Russian soil to fight the Red Army. It was this clear message that the West wanted the communists dead (along with the failure of communist revolutions throughout the rest of Europe and the Americas) that gave the credence for 'communism in one country' and kept the cold war chugging along. The Second World War helped solidify this position by drawing the lines between capitalist and communist 'states' in the sand after the fall of Germany.
But this is neither here nor there, war sucks.