The Cold War was a war of ideologies, so it's probably easiest to say that neither side provoked the other and it was simply the huge amount of distrust between the two that sparked the Cold War. While arguments can be made that more diplomacy and less paranoia from each side could have perhaps changed some parts of the Cold War, the attitudes of both nations at the time made that pretty much impossible.

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