How did the actions of the states and personnel “fighting” the Cold War have an impact on the decolonization process? Judging from these documents, is the late twentieth century the end of empires and

How did the actions of the states and personnel “fighting” the Cold War have an impact on the decolonization process? Judging from these documents, is the late twentieth century the end of empires and imperialism, as the modern European empires got dismantled, or could you make the case that empires just took on new forms?