![]() ![]() America and soviet union would move into the rubble that was postwar europe. ![]() Stalin wanted to maintain a soviet "sphere of influence" to protect russia, as a buffer zone, from foreign invasion. ![]() America believed in spread of democracy (free elections and self determination, Atlantic Charter) but Soviets believed that they should absorb all the eastern european nations and make commies out of all of them. During WW2 Soviets disliked and distrusted America because we held out on the western front, and secretly built an atomic bomb - The issue of the postwar world further split the two nations apart. US did not extend diplomatic relations with russia until 16 years after the new communist government rose. Soviet Union had reason to believe that the US and other western nations plotted against them. ![]() American people viewed the Soviet Union as harsh and brutal, and evil under the control of Stalin WHY SOVIETS HATE US - Communist russia disliked the capitalism in america. Communism also cur off democracy and eliminated religion. Also, this brought about the central idea of communism, which was to destroy capitalism. Cold war historians stress how history, ideology, and national interest created serious misperceptions, limited the range of options on both sides, and made confrontation nearly inevitable, -WHY US hates Soviets 1917 relations between soviet union and US wen sour when the Bolshevik revolution took place and the russians withdrew from World War 1 under Lenin leaving the allies to fight against the germans solely on the western front. ![]()
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