This can be seen from the beginning after WWII, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. were competing with each other during the height of the Cold war for Ideological dominance in third world countries such as Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan as well as Latin American guerrilla groups to name a few.
It was the ship sent to North America of many that docked in Plymouth Rock, Massatuesets, claiming it as the first settlement in what would become the United States of America