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Half of Europe was plagued by communism for 45 years and the effects of that dark period endure to this day; Europe became a colony of USSR on one side and USA on the other side,practically after ww2 there was no real any European power that could claim it was a,true,world leader,as it was the case before ww2 and especially ww1(now USSR and USA ruled the world); Europe became a "bunker",the two superpowers stocking many many weapons on the continent,instead of investing money in education,healthcare,economy and etc (the reason the cold war ended was because USSR couldn't keep up with economy or with army developments of the capitalist countries)

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