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The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. However, the Soviet stance on human rights and its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 created new tensions between the two countries. After the war, Stalin and the USSR wanted to punish Germany and even wanted to execute many German soldiers at the Nuremberg Trials.
(USSR = Soviot Union)
(Stalin- Joseph Stalin) President during the Soviet Union
