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Originally Posted by elphenor
the US is an open society in that this is all public record now
soviet socialism was feared by the gov for the very reason that by some metrics it could be seen as a success, a model for how to break from Western dominance
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Quite simply untrue lol
The soviets were seen as a threat ideologically because they opposed capitalism but also just geopolitically they were the only other major power left standing after ww2. It's very likely that the us and russia would've entered a cold war style standoff even if russia was capitalist. It's extremely naive to think the us only fears rivals based on their economic philosophy. Since the collapse of the soviet union the us and nato have continued the same basic "containment" tactics that we associate with the cold war. And since China has liberalized large aspects of their economy we only continue to have increasing tensions with them as their economy and geopolitical status rises.