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Originally Posted by RCAlyra2004
I think you need to look a little closer at history. The dispute between the US and the OLD Soviet Union was as religious as it was ideological in the sense that conservative Christian politicians would not accept anything other than American style democracy, "praise god". No large mass of people died. Demonizing each other was the order of the day.
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BZZT - wrong. Thanks for playing. The Cold War was about who was going to control Europe. The religious overtones were simply one of the talking points. Any Cold War historian will tell you exactly the same thing, and the Soviets couldn't have cared less if the US were a bunch of religious zealots. Stalin just wanted to control Western Europe the same way he did the Eastern portion.
Edit - saying that conservative Christian politicians made the Cold War into a religious conflict is the same as saying that Civil was a religious war. Sure some people read religion into the events, but the majority did not. The Soviets for sure did not view it with as anything religious in nature other than to make their own use of our religious propaganda, which was a part of demonizing process. The Soviets even found their own use for religion when it served their purposes - Stalin allowed the appointment of a metropolitan of the Orthodox church during WWII, the first time that office had been held since Peter the Great got rid of it in the early 18th Century.