The fundamental origins of the Cold War can be disputed but if one thing is fully agreed upon is that the main conflict is derived from economic ideology. Capitalism and communism. The Soviet Union of course was communist and forged through deceit on the behalf of Lenin and Stalin. America however was just about the polar opposite of the soviets and their views. We had a free market while the Soviet Union had a very restricted market. The Ideological differences between the two is what sparked the "war" and unrest in that time.
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