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After WWII, why did the United States not trust stalin and why did stalin not trust the united states?

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Because of all of the nuclear weapons both sides we're getting and because the Soviet Union and Stalin were communists and America was a democracy.
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Both believed the other was going to try to destroy the other's political views, which directly led to many violent confrontations.
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