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I am no expert but isn't it enough that the Sowiet Union was the next biggest superpower and they were in war mostly because they were afraid of each other and/or each one wanted to be the only superpower regardless of the economic system?
And even if it was about the economic system. One system can be much better than the other without the worse one automatically crumble on its own. Also both systems work best when they are the only system everyone is participating in.
The United states, and most of Western europe, were fucking with the Soviet Union long before it became a superpower. Technically they were fucking with it before they even became the Soviet Union. During the Civil War while the whites and the reds were still fighting the United States and other countries were putting their fingers on the scales trying to help the whites.
Not true. Capitalism without a mix of socialism is complete disaster.
What? It was absolutely about the economic system. Churchill and the Dulles brothers and like every important political figure in the west didn’t just dislike Russia as a superpower, they outright stated at every point that it was the economic ideology of communism they hated. Why in the world would they do things like invading Vietnam (who wanted to work with the US and considered them allies) or funding terrorism in Indonesia while they were ACTIVELY allied? They were very open about this. Where are you getting the basis of your opinions from exactly?