Most Soviet children were evacuated from the city during the Olympics to avoid their having contact with foreigners. Good/ Creative Commonsġ980 Summer Olympics: The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow in protest of Soviet military operations in Afghanistan. The present paper tries to study and explore the dimensions of new Cold War and its impact.Image of Cyrillic book, (c) Flickr: Ashley R. It is totally a fight for power and hegemony. This New Cold War is not based on Ideological fight. The recent deployment of NATO forces and missiles in Eastern European countries have led to the emergence of New Cold War. Both America and Russia started new interventions and rivalries cropped up. People all over the world felt relief and hoped that the Cold War had ended but it emerged again between America and Russia within a few years. Measures were adopted for disarmament of nuclear weapons. ![]() There was reduction in Cold War animosity. Russian Leader Gorbachev's reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of Communist rule and abolition of Warsaw Pact in 1991. ![]() This generated arms race and development of nuclear weapons of mass destructions by them which could destroy the entire world. These organizations started countering each other to fulfill their interests and animosities all over the world. while Soviet Union and its allies formed Warsaw Pact defence bloc to promote and protect communist-socialist ideology. America and its allies formed NATO defence bloc to protect and promote liberal-democratic ideology. The Cold War rivalries between United States of America and Soviet Union after the Second World War till 1991 had divided the entire world into two blocs with extreme hostilities against each other on ideological lines.
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