Soviet involvement in the cold war
In beginning of the Cold War, all the USSR wanted was to expand their lands, which, in their eyes, would bring security to the union. They kind of went about it the wrong way though, using aggression and force to take over Baltic nations and other small countries that couldn't really resist.
Remembering the loads of invasions of Russia and the USSR over the years, the first leader in the cold war for the Soviets, Joseph Stalin, maintained a wall of military reinforcements that separated his territory from the rest of Eastern Europe, creating what Winston Churchill dubbed the iron curtain. Which, behind it, the nation could attain valuable resources while other parts of Europe couldn't, weakening their enemies.
Their actions and previous tensions between the USA and the USSR help rapidly fray the political bonds between them and America. The USA introduced the Marshall Plan, to get back some of the territories the USSR had, but they forbade the countries they've dominated from taking part.
However, with the siege of Berlin and the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Allies, minus Russia and China, now communist allies, tried to retake Berlin and reunite it with West Germany. And when it fell in 1989, the Soviet Union began to slowly fall apart. On Christmas Day, in 1991, 11 of the 15 soviet states declared them,selves independent from the Soviet Union. The three Baltic states had already declared their independence, leaving only Georgia and Russia in the "Union", if it could really be still called that. One of the worlds superpowers had fallen.
Remembering the loads of invasions of Russia and the USSR over the years, the first leader in the cold war for the Soviets, Joseph Stalin, maintained a wall of military reinforcements that separated his territory from the rest of Eastern Europe, creating what Winston Churchill dubbed the iron curtain. Which, behind it, the nation could attain valuable resources while other parts of Europe couldn't, weakening their enemies.
Their actions and previous tensions between the USA and the USSR help rapidly fray the political bonds between them and America. The USA introduced the Marshall Plan, to get back some of the territories the USSR had, but they forbade the countries they've dominated from taking part.
However, with the siege of Berlin and the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Allies, minus Russia and China, now communist allies, tried to retake Berlin and reunite it with West Germany. And when it fell in 1989, the Soviet Union began to slowly fall apart. On Christmas Day, in 1991, 11 of the 15 soviet states declared them,selves independent from the Soviet Union. The three Baltic states had already declared their independence, leaving only Georgia and Russia in the "Union", if it could really be still called that. One of the worlds superpowers had fallen.