how did the us come to dislike Russia post ww2?

Answer 1

cuase Russia is better then the usa so we as americans must hate all that is better

Answer 2

Because they were savages. One of the most brutal, repressive counties that has ever existed. Tens of millions of people had been slaughtered by the communists. Traitors, POWs, and political enemies found themselves in a soviet gulag in northern Siberia, similar to the Nazi concentration camps.

Their economy was based off of inviting American companies to exploit natural resources, then nationalizing the industry when it finally proved profitable. The only industry that the USSR did was was in the arms industry, which should say something about them.

After the war, the soviets demanded everything from all of France, Germany, and Italy, all the way to China, and half of Japan (they had wanted to split Japan like Korea, despite only declaring war on Japan 2 weeks before Japan surrendered.) They had desired a communist Eurasia. It was only through tough American negotiating that Russia was stemmed at all.

They were not friendly to "Liberated" countries. When a country, for example Poland, was liberated by the communists, the first thing they did was round up all the old politicians and military officers, and have them executed, so that they could install a puppet communist government without fear of insurrection. And when the communists fell in the 1990's, the truth of the communist deprevations became clear: the western part of Europe was free, prosperous, and clean. The eastern part was destitute, polluted, and still had rubble in the streets from World War II.

The U.S generally didn't like Russia for the same reasons it generally didn't like the Nazis. They were monsters, pure and simple.

Answer 3

In the Soviet Union, there was no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, and no freedom of the press. Those basic liberities are what the US is based on.

To make things worse, the Soviet Union imposed their system of government on countries that had previously held those freedoms.

Elections were one party and one candidate so little change could happen until the ruling class died off. Well, it died off and change happened. It's not all to the good, but Russia is slowly building a democratic government based on the freedoms I mentioned.

On the PLUS side of the Soviet government, this is something that is rarely mentioned. When the Soviet government took over, the literacy rate in Russia was 3%. Now it is 90%. The Soviets prepared Russia for democracy by educating their people. They, in effect, put themselves out of business.

Answer 4

There were agreements between the Russians and the US and the Russians did not keep them. While the US liberated Western Europe and the Pacific nations (including former enemies Germany and Japan), Russia enslaved various countries they had occupied during the war.

They were even trying to take over nations the US had freed (Greece, Turkey, Austria and France to name a few). That caused the tension.

Answer 5

Relations between Russia and American, and Britain were never extremely warm. Churchill related allying with Russia to allying with satan out neccessity. The Russians refused to allow free elections in captured territories and instead imposed communist rule there, creating sattelite puppet states.

Answer 6

They were and aggressive, totalitarian nation. They were poised to conquer Europe and spread communism throughout the world. The US, being a capitalist democracy, is the complete opposite in ideal. They were really natural enemies and had only cooperated during WW2 because they had a common enemy.

Answer 7

Right from the days of Bolshevik Revolution which was an experimentation on 'Marxism in action', the USA was critical of the USSR. Later, after the World war II the spread of international socialism threatened the democratic traditions of right to dissent and multy - party system. Then started the period of Cold War on Cuban crisis. Now it is all over after Marxism proved a failure with vivisection and disintegration of the USSR.

Answer 8

Mutual hatred on point of interpreting democracy.