What caused military partnership to turn into the Cold War?
In Vyacheslav Nikonov's audiobook, the backstage mechanisms of postwar diplomacy, the events on the eve of the Fulton speech, and the origins of the conflict that largely shaped the history of the 20th century are revealed.
In May 1945, a plan appeared in Great Britain that was considered incredible: to begin an immediate war against the USSR, involving British, American, and German forces. It was never implemented, but reality rapidly approached this "unthinkable": within just a few months, the wartime alliance of World War II gave way to the Cold War, effectively proclaimed by Winston Churchill in his speech in Fulton in March 1946. Why did this happen? The explanation is in the book by the well-known Russian politician, analyst, and TV host V. A. Nikonov. You will see what was happening in those months in the Kremlin offices, in the capitals of the leading powers, in the West and the East — and in the calculations of their leaders. How the UN was created, how the world entered the atomic age, how the war with Japan ended. And how the reasons for the current hostility of Western elites toward our country were formed.