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Not in the physical sence. Diplomatic relations might have been described as 'Frosty' between the Soviets & the rest of Europe and the US. Quite why this came about is difficult to understand. The Russian behaviour at the cessation of European hostilities in 1945 is, to me, incomprehensible. Their treatment of their so called Allies, principally the US & Britain, was unfriendly, and that puts it mildly in the extreme. Is anyone out there going to justify Soviet post war diplomatic policy ?

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Yes, it was a war of words, and a war of political posturing. It was a war of psychological maneuvering, a war of threatening behavior, and a war of life-on-the-edge espionage. If you were involved in it by being part of the military or part of the diplomatic corps, or if you lived in eastern Europe, you were at war in a very real sense, even though there weren't any bombs or artillery actually going off; but you lived in a world where bombs and artillery could be going off any minute if somebody got out of control and made the wrong move.

In eastern Europe, people died by gunfire every day as they tried to make their way across guarded borders, through all sorts of fences and walls and barriers, to the freedoms of western Europe. People died in prisons and prison camps and died by abuse and torture; cruelty and uncertainty were the tools to keep the population in fear and under strict control, the Nazi playbook with some gruesome eastern twists. You'd never get their families to agree that it wasn't actually a war.

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it was cold

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