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title: "Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War"  
description: "The Cold War was a political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-12  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1303/some-unbelievable-facts-about-the-cold-war  
category: "history"  
tags: ["War", "historical war", "battles", "Cold War", "facts", "history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War

![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/bcf7b6ce-d568-4059-8572-15af923bd602.jpeg) ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/0fddbbd7-5eb3-445d-b7a8-0476c41f0bd4.jpeg) During the Cold War, the CIA and KGB used a sex tape to blackmail Indonesia’s first president ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/92147238-bcd3-454a-8355-40b481bcb4d6.jpeg) The CIA used condoms as Cold War weapons ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/9def106c-91e9-421b-b709-63eb16c0798e.jpeg) The term ‘Cold War’ was popularized by a journalist ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/076ee216-297b-40d3-8190-c5fb44419551.jpeg) The Cold War lasted for 40 years ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/aad6778e-4f07-4ceb-8b9b-6c26c974cad9.jpeg) The CIA used the shoe Lace Code during the Cold War ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/e4aa5631-23cb-4014-b1bd-a06698973bc5.jpeg) The US army used $8 trillion during the Cold War ![Some Unbelievable Facts about the Cold War](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/f06562bb-2bb9-41db-9d58-1d7c21790dba/images/bcf7b6ce-d568-4059-8572-15af923bd602.jpeg) The Soviet Union had the largest army during the Cold War

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