Question

Give three examples to show how the ‘thaw’ in the Cold War was partial.

Answer 1

After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev became his successor and started reforms like destalinisation. There were various examples which showed that the ‘thaw’ was partial during the Cold War which were as follows:

1. Sometimes, he followed a conciliatory policy and sometimes a policy which seemed to be a threat to the Western Bloc.
2. He did not show any desire to relax Russian control over its satellite states.
3. Although the USSR under his leadership signed many agreements for disarmament but it continued building nuclear armaments in practice.