On page 983 it says "both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power, rather than a what it was, a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world and the west trying to prevent the takeover."
Am I missing something here? I have no issue with that quote, which if I read the article correctly is supoposed to be an example of the published misinformation (other examples later in the article are better).
Um, I took it to mean that the text said the both sides portion while the article writer was making an aside as to what the battle really was