Stalin did partly succeed in achieving his aims for the transformation of the Russian economy.
Immediate conflicts:
... The USA had atomic weapons and the USSR did not. (The US would not share that technology with the Soviets.)
... The USSR did not assure that free and fair elections took place in Eastern Europe -- it saw to it that Soviet-aligned governments were installed there.
... Tensions over the East Germany / West Germany and East Berlin / West Berlin division of territory.
Deeper causes:
The USA was committed to capitalism and democratic institutions of government.
The USSR was committed to communism and imposed authoritarian government.
The Cold War was mostly a tension between these worldviews.
What do you think? Rome would have fallen to intruders on the off chance that the Huns had not moved into the west? Clarify. Impacts. Swelling. Untrust- commendable armed force. Political.
<span>Hobbes believed that without the structure of law in society, we would resort to depravity and violence when needed to. If someone were to be in a desperate enough state, they would murder or steal for survival. Law helps to undo that.</span>
