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The opposing sides.

The Cold War was a confrontation between the two systemsworld order - capitalist and socialist. Despite the fact that the initiator of the confrontation was the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the main force of the West was not the United Kingdom, but the United States. The socialist camp was headed by the USSR. The confrontation was not only between these two countries or two systems, opposing each other and various organizations - military (NATO and ATS), economic (EEC and CMEA). In different periods of time, changes took place on both sides. The main forces of the socialist camp were the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. Later, they were joined by Cuba, North Korea, Angola, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Afghanistan. Although they were not always faithful allies, Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of China were on this side of the barricades.

The material embodiment of the boundary between capitalism and socialism was the Berlin Wall, which was destroyed in 1990.

The main driving forces of the west are the United States,Great Britain, Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey. Also, the capitalist system was supported by such states as Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates. Since 1955, Germany joined the western blocs. France, on the contrary, left the alliance in 1966.

The victory of capitalism.

With regard to the declared goals of the Superpowers, theywere to neutralize the enemy for their own security and the security of their allies. Also, an obvious goal was the construction of its economic systems throughout the globe, and accordingly - the expansion of its sphere of influence. As for the official end of the war, this date can be considered December 26, 1991 - the day of the collapse of the USSR as a stronghold of socialism. In some countries, and after the collapse of the USSR, there were elements of socialism. Such states were declared Western "outcasts".

Is the Cold War over?

A significant proportion of the population of both Russia and itsNew neighbors did not identify with the loser in the Cold War. The Soviet state and the socialist system, and not the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc., suffered defeat. However, unfortunately, the "victory" of capitalism in the post-Soviet space did not make Russia and its neighbors more developed countries economically. For most of the main economic indicators, almost all the countries of the post-Soviet space have retreated far back. The Baltic States were a temporary exception, however, after joining the European Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania found new problems for their economies as regular pan-European crises.

The direct clash of the two systems took place in many regions of the world - in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Central America, Africa, in the Near and Central Asia.

After the official end of the Cold Warthe military bloc of NATO, in spite of its promises, significantly expanded to the east, taking into its ranks former allies of the disintegrating USSR, although the meaning of this maneuver is not entirely clear, if one believes that the war has ended and there is no more danger from the East. Officially, the Cold War ended in 1991. However, watching the aggressive US foreign policy, one can begin to doubt whether the Cold War ended in principle?