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after World War two humanity went from a global military confrontation to another type of war called a cold war instead of transitioning to a peacetime economy specifically to a conflict which didn't involve direct military confrontations between the main participants but rather an extensive arms race continuous tensions and occasional proxy wars ideologically speaking it was a battle between Marxism and capitalism lasting until the dissolution of the USSR on the 26th of December 1991 the Cold War was long and extremely expensive over the entire Cold War period US military purchases amounted to roughly 17 trillion of today's dollars and while reliable figures for the USSR hard to come by they most likely spend less in nominal terms but more as a percentage of their gross national product in the end the USSR collapsed under its own weight as their over centralized planning just didn't work collective farming was such a failure that the once powerful food exporter became a significant fo