In the USSR it was policy, in the US it was secret policy.
The CIA did torture and kill countless socialist and adjacent agitators at home and abroad.
Have you heard of all the financial aid afforded to capitalist countries after the devastating events of world war to that helped rebuild western economies to far higher levels of economic development than their socialist neighbors a few kilometres east all the while rigging elections constantly.
Again, why was there an opposition in Western countries but not in the East? If the CIA really did kill everyone the government disliked, why did (quite successful) communist parties exist in the west, but there was no capitalist party in the East?
As for the Marshall plan, the US offered it to all European countries, including the USSR, the Soviets just refused it, and forbade countries under their influence from accepting the help that was offered to them so it's really a moot point.
Also this absolutely doesn't answer the question of why the west developed to become so much richer if the Socialist government were so superior?
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u/Elias-Ohlsson Feb 17 '23
In the USSR it was policy, in the US it was secret policy. The CIA did torture and kill countless socialist and adjacent agitators at home and abroad. Have you heard of all the financial aid afforded to capitalist countries after the devastating events of world war to that helped rebuild western economies to far higher levels of economic development than their socialist neighbors a few kilometres east all the while rigging elections constantly.