Octavian Stoch
The former Soviet Union is the chief reason for the onset of the Cold War, as a result of their aggressive actions they forced the United States to protect their own interests and therefore world peace. However, in order to see why the Soviet action constituted United States intervention we must take a look back at the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference. This meeting was to begin the long process of the rebuilding of Europe and the establishment of free elections in previously occupied territories to determine what democratic institution would be installed . Where the Capitalist nations and the Communist nation of Soviet Russia differed was their definition of democracy. Not one month after the Yalta Conference, …show more content…
For example: the American freedom of speech is not really fully and completely free, it is merely a tool for the bourgeoisie a.k.a. the corporations to fulfill their own interests such that whatever happens it will not chiefly conflict with their interests. This seems a trifling detail but it’s crucial to understanding an inkling of just how the United States felt about the Soviet Union. The United States was well aware of what the Soviet Union thought and proclaimed, that their freedom of speech was of false pretense. And that all the essential decision making is in essence not made by anyone but the …show more content…
The Iron Curtain in question was referred to in Winston Churchill’s famous speech at Westminster College in which he warned the World of the coming dangers of the Communist Party. While we welcomed Russia’s right to secure her western border as to prevent another attack directly upon her own soil, the governments of the Eastern European nations were, for the most part, police states that are governed by the local Communist Parties while receiving orders from the Kremlin. This along is another violation that is added onto the already expansive list of violations that the Soviet Unions has done in spite of the Yalta Conference. The Soviet Union is also exerting their totalitarian tendencies even under the once independent and free nation of Czechoslovakia in which they are not allowed to trade with any Capitalist nation and thus have no true democratic government. Again, this violates another stipulation of the Yalta Conference which the people have a right to free elections in order to choose their own democratic governments and not have it be shoved down their thoughts through the enforcers of a police