[Ryzorian]

Russia's vast resources are predominately in Siberia and at the time difficult for them to gain access too. They had a huge army true enough and massive numbers of field artillery. However the US had superior air power and that is what controles wars these days.

They never should have gotten the "east block" nations to begin with, that was a tactical error on the US part. Though that was one of the motivateing factors to us the Abomb in Japan. Russia tended to not give anything back and we didn't want a split Japan like Germany was.

Wether the "cold war" came about as a series of tactical blunders or by political design who knows. I think Chruchill was behind some of the "containment" policy implamented. I suspect the countries involved were war weary by then and just didn't want to do anything, thus 50 years of proxy wars ensued.