The Red Effect

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At the end of World War Two, the already strained relationship between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies broke down completely.

With the West angry over Stalin’s refusal to give up land occupied by the Red Army during the advance to Berlin and Stalin’s paranoia and fear over the atomic bomb, relations stiffened and a mutual distrust developed.

With some high ranking officials in both America and Britain pushing for an immediate attack on the Red Army using captured German forces if necessary, both sides maintained large armies in Germany as a bulwark against attack. It wasn’t until the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb in 1949 that the threat of a conventional land war receded. In its place, developed a proxy war which became known as the ‘Cold War’. While the Soviet Union and the USA couldn’t attack each other directly for fear of triggering an all-out nuclear war, they did use their allies to hinder and frustrate each other.

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