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COLD WAR

The Cold War was the name given to the stand-off between the Soviet Union and her allies (The Warsaw Pact) and the USA and her allies (NATO) following the end of the Second World War. As the Second World War ended America wanted to continue through Germany and invade the USSR, replacing the Communist government with one more harmonious with American economic interests. This desire for invasion and regime change continued for many years, with the Soviets developing more and more nuclear weapons as a deterrent (aided by hundreds of sympathisers - spies - in Britain, Germany and America who supplied technology secrets to the Soviets, not for money but out of sympathy for the Soviet ideals) until America achieved her aims with the 'peaceful' collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s - which subsequently led to civil wars in the former Soviet Republics, the emergence of large gangs or organised criminals and anything but peace in the former Soviet Union. War was probably avoided by the colossal intelligence
gathered by both sides during the standoff, the Soviet KGB having spies within the British MI6 and CIA and the British and Americans having spies within the Soviet KGB.
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