Was allied involvement in Russia during world war 1 and the bolshevik revolution a significant factor in post ww2 hostility between the US and the Soviet Union?

by sluggles

I was browsing r/Wikipedia, and came across this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

kieslowskifan

Although the Allied intervention became a staple of Soviet Cold war propaganda, it was not a significant factor in the creation of the Cold War. The Cold War itself had multiple causes ranging from the postwar situation of Germany, American anticommunism, Stalin's geostrategic vision, to wildcards events that neither superpower expected like the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. In this context of the immediate past and contingent events, the Allied intervention was quite a distant historical event.

The Soviets did not make much of America's role in the intervention even during the interwar period when memories of the Civil War were still fresh. Although the US was clearly a member of the capitalist camp, Soviet interwar writings in the Soviet press often evinced a curious attraction to American modernity and methods. The interwar Soviet press would periodically castigate the US as Europe's boss or an imperial power over Latin America and China and other stock caricatures, but also would note America was "the land of the machine" and was unwedded to convention when it came to applying science and technology to solve problems. This general neglect of the Allied intervention by the USSR press would continue in the Stalinist thirties as the USSR's strategy of the Popular Front meant trying to cultivate constructive relationships, albeit on Soviet terms, with the Western democracies to form a bloc against fascism. Bringing up the ghost of the Allied intervention would have been counterproductive to this effort

The same could not be said after the Second World War and the Cold War. One of the Soviet narratives on the dissolution of the wartime alliance and one replicated in films like The Fall of Berlin and Seventeen Moments of Spring was that a well-meaning, but naive FDR was swindled into opposing the Soviets by a duplicitous Churchill and some American co-conspirators like Truman and Dulles. Churchill's role in the Allied intervention fit within this particular narrative on the origins of the Cold War rather nicely and the Allied intervention became a historical prologue for Soviet's position in the Cold War.

WhiskeyTangoes

Post WW2 hostility mostly attribute to Soviet actions - immediately after WW2 they've blockaded Berlin, tried to get Bosphorus from Turkey and occupy Iran.

Not to mention violent suppression of German strike and Hungarian rebellion.