Who Was to Blame for the Cold War

Which of these countries was most responsible for the Cold War – USA or USSR? Both USA and USSR contributed to the slow evolvement of the Cold War, although I would accuse the USSR of being the more responsible of the two parties. Stalin’s initial paranoid suspicions of the West gave him the need to cripple Germany in order to feel protected against future threats and I believe that he used this excuse to too …

…I find USSR to be the more responsible. Neither country can be held solely responsible for the Cold War as it was their interaction with each other which was the cause of it. It was an era of suspicion, clashing personalities, ideological differences and tension, combined with America’s belief that being a superpower held the “responsibility for world collaboration” as they did not want to repeat the mistakes made before the Second World War.