the term cold war itslef is a propaganda term invented by none other than George Orwell. The accusation being that the soviets were secretly waging a cold war against the US and Britain and that they needed to fight back. The existence of a cold war is a conspiracy theory itself. Anyone from labor unions, to independence movements, could be declared a part of some global soviet conspiracy theory to make everyone speak Russian and practice interracial marriage or whatever racist white people in the 1950’s feared the most.
the term cold war itslef is a propaganda term invented by none other than George Orwell. The accusation being that the soviets were secretly waging a cold war against the US and Britain and that they needed to fight back. The existence of a cold war is a conspiracy theory itself. Anyone from labor unions, to independence movements, could be declared a part of some global soviet conspiracy theory to make everyone speak Russian and practice interracial marriage or whatever racist white people in the 1950’s feared the most.