After the World War II there was a conflict between USSR and USA interests which is
known as the Cold War.
It emerged out of a conflict between Stalin and US president Harry Truman over
the future of Europe.
In April 1949 the US sponsored NATO. In 1955 the Soviet
Union established the Warsaw Pact as a counterpart to NATO.
US-Soviet relations deteriorated following the beginning
of the nine-year Soviet War in Afghanistan in 1979 and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, a
staunch anti-communist, but improved as the Soviet bloc started to unravel in
the late 1980s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia lost the
superpower status that it had won in the Second World War.
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