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Per Wikipedia: "Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common" (WWII ended in 1945 for reference). But the cold war was a slowly building thing that took many more years to reach fruition.

So now that we've dealt with pedantic complaints that are wrong anyway, do you have any substantive problems with what I said?




Marking a cold war feels almost like marking when one species becomes another.


This comment is so utterly generic, uninformed, condescending and pretentious, I have no words...




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