Should historians assign blame?
The assignation of blame should depend on numerous factors. To blame a specific party for an event that occurred in the past is a controversial topic and to do so a historian would need countless historically accurate sources to do so. However there is often a lack of sources from the time of the event, that are both accurate and have no particular bias. Historians should only assign blame in the case when they have no doubts about the information they are basing the blame off of.
Assigning blame in this situation is hard to do as there is little evidence to show that it was one side or the other. Both sides were to blame for the cold war and until there is a source that is able to prove a single sided aggravation blame is unable to be assigned.
