Soviet Perspectives on the Cold War

Soviet opinion on the Cold War After the Second World War, Joseph Stalin divided the world into two camps. Imperialism and capitalist regime, communism and progressive world. In 1947, President Harry Truman also referred to two opposite systems. One was free and the other was conquering other countries. After Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev said that imperialism and capitalism could coexist without war as the communist regime was strengthened in 1956.

If you do not know yet, the Cold War is a period of fierce competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War lasted from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Cold War was not a real war with people, guns, tanks, fighters, but a fierce war. President Reagan of the two superpowers in the world thinks that the United States needs to have strong military power. He thinks he is willing to negotiate with the Soviets (he does), but he wants to negotiate from a strong position. In 1983, Reagan proposed a missile defense system called Strategic Defense Program (SDI). Basically this is a missile defense system, laser and other state-of-the-art technology can offset future missiles. This project relied on technologies that were not yet available, but this project aroused the fear of the Soviet Union and gave the US an advantage in negotiations. The project has never been fully deployed

In the early stages of President Reagan 's term of office, the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Cold War is rising. Reagan was deeply suspicious of the Soviet Union when he entered the office. Reagan called the Soviet Union "an evil empire" and called for the establishment of a space missile defense system criticized as "Star Wars" by critics. Reagan and his adviser tend to see each regional conflict through the Cold War lens. There is no realistic place beyond the Western hemisphere, he decides to stop winning the Communist Party. In October 1983, Grenada, Maurice Bishop's Prime Minister Caribe was assassinated, and a more radical Marxist government grabbed power. After that, the Soviet currency and the Cuban army came to Grenada. When they began constructing an airport where they could land large military aircraft, the Reagan administration decided to remove the communist and restart the political power.