Things we believed during the Cold War that ended up being wrong

Sometimes, this mutual backstabbing went to ludicrous extremes. In Albania, for example, Enver Hoxha was so convinced the USSR was going to invade that he built over half a million nuclear bunkers to shelter in (via Atlas Obscura). Since Moscow had just invaded Czechoslovakia, he may even have had a point. In Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito fell out so hard with Russia that Stalin tried to kill him with plague, while Tito may have had Stalin poisoned (via Daily Beast).