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who is this stalin on here? is he for real?
The real Stalin died in 1953. Its just a Yahoo user who finds it amusing to use his name and image.
How important was the personalantagonism between Stalin &Truman in explaining the startof the Cold War?
How important was the personal antagonism between Stalin & Truman in explaining the start of the Cold War?
The Cold War went far beyond personal antagonism. The Cold War defined both countries' foreign policies through the second half of the twentieth century, as Americans and Soviets competed for allies to maintain and widen their respective spheres of influence around the world. Each side viewed the Cold War as a battle between civilizations; in the worldwide clash between American capitalism and Soviet Communism, only one could prevail. From Shmoop/Cold War Causes
How much did the Americanpublic know about the Stalinregime during the fact?
Say I am in America during the late 1930s and early 1940s. How much information is available to me about the actions of Stalin in the USSR?
The Soviet Union was a closed country under Stalin. That is very few people were allowed into the country, and journalists were restricted to official tours. The Soviet Union released information through its news agencies, ITAR-TASS and Novosti, but the news was very limited and all of it was censored. Having said that, the Soviet Union did release details of the Show Trials, the trials of old Bolsheviks who had been accused of various plots against the Soviet Union, against Stalin or for spying for Britain, the US or Germany. As to the severity of either the famine in Ukraine, or the extent of the the purges, very little information leaked out of the USSR about these events. The US was deeply isolationist in the 1930s and was not particularly interested in what was going on in Europe at the time. By the 1940s it was allied to the Soviet Union to defeat Hitler so anything that was known was kept quiet for the war effort. After the war, as the cold war began, the US began to take note of what was happening there, but the lack of reliable information plagued academic and journalists attempts to uncover the scale of repression. Only after the fall of Communism were the archives opened and people were free to speak about what had happened - a lot of books about the USSR had to be revised in light of this new information - i.e. the number of deaths attributed to Stalin went from 60million down to 2 to 3 million.
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