دانلود کتاب تانک های ناتو و پیمان ورشو در جنگ سرد

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the long-simmering tensions between the two vastly different political systems, the capitalism of the Western Allies and the communism of the Soviet Union, quickly reached a boiling point. Their mutual enemy, the Axis alliance, no longer existed. As neither side trusted the other, it led to a political and military stalemate that historians label as the ‘Cold War’, which began in 1947 and ended in 1991 with the political collapse of the Soviet Union. Both the former Western Allies and the Soviet Union had post-war agendas. To prevent another invasion of their country, the Soviet Union had decided that most of the Central and Eastern European countries it occupied following the surrender of Nazi Germany were to remain under Soviet control, both politically and militarily. They were to act as buffer states. To disguise that fact, puppet governments soon appeared among them staffed by local Communist Party members, with all major policy decisions dictated from Moscow.