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Ok 'to protect the motherland from America and western power' was political bs and you know it. Stalin occupied the countries cause he wanted power and yeah it did help protect him.
read my edits on the post you quoted
The US did warn Russia (check my edits). Also if we are talking what the biggest secret was i would like to put the naughty document on the table.
I think America might have had the right to demonize Stalin. Maybe not the country as a whole but it's American media we are insane not much you can do there.
Russia had a bunch of eastern European states protecting it. The only country we could have poured money into that was actually next to it and wasn't in desperate need of money was Turkey. So it was one country. But if we do count the rest of the countries we poured money into I'll be happy to point out that the whole of Europe was essentially rumble.
Well the Cuban missile thing was the only time the US and USSR ever really threatened each other directly. Most of the time it was indirect threats.
Desperately trying to catch up? Yeah much of their industrialized regions were recked but it took them what 4 years to get the atom bomb after the US got one.
I pretty much spent a year of my life studying the history of the cold war in detail.
You seem to be tunnel visioning with your view that America did nothing wrong with their diplomacy towards the USSR and that the USSR singularly caused the cold war.
The USSR culture is different to the American and western one. It's one of the reasons why us westerners cannot believe that the Russians keep voting in Putin year after year to be their President (or Prime Minister briefly).
Here goes the timeline:
America bombs Hiroshima - this happens whilst America/Russia/England/France are discussing how to break up Berlin and the rest of Germany, the Yalta conference. America tells England/France but not Russia.
Russia starts developing nuclear bomb. Arms race begins.
Russia seizes Poland to put buffer between itself and American controlled parts of Germany.
NATO established by America. Pretty much sole intent of NATO at this point is to defend itself against the USSR. Consists of England/France/other European nations including Germany. This is a strong insult to the USSR.
Shortly after NATO the USSR develops and tests its first atomic bomb. Around this time the USSR also wins the Chinese civil war.
US and UN invade Korea/ overthrow Iranian government/ overthrow Guatemalan government.
Warsaw pact.
USSR crushed Hungarian uprising.
USSR launches first satellite (with military and espionage potential)
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba and aligns itself with the USSR. Bay of Pigs happens (first American attack on one of USSR's allies, unprovoked.) Cuban missile crisis. USSR sends missiles to Cuba for defensive use. American fleets ordered to stop envoy. Nearly results in direct war.
(After this both America and Russia realise how close to the edge of human existence they are treading and everything becomes a lot more political with less military involvement.)
Now I'm not saying that the USSR was the angel in this story, very far from it. But as you can see America single out the USSR as the threat and act extremely aggressively towards the USSR.
When you're talking about 'pouring money into Eastern Europe' you're actually referring to the Marshall plan which gave Eastern European countries $120 billion (today's value) in funds to 'Westernise' those countries. This was around the time that Churchill gave a speech condemning communism. The USSR see the Marshall plan as an American plan to 'buy communist countries' and so respond by increasing their hold on the countries on it's borders.
That area of the world at the time was regarded as primarily communist, and all those countries at the time were essentially states of the USSR.