Why did the Soviet Union flaunt democracy and the United States declare freedom during the Cold War?

First of all, the Soviet Union flaunted democracy for the following reasons:

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was the representative of the capitalist camp. In order to show that its political system is superior to the capitalist camp, it is natural to sacrifice the banner of "democracy" to flaunt its advanced nature and superiority.

Actually, it's just the opposite. Especially during Stalin's rule, the Soviet Union was monogamous. Collectivization of agriculture, reform-through-labour camps, censorship of letters and encouragement of informers are all aimed at deifying Stalin and consolidating his rule. The People's Internal Affairs Committee (the predecessor of KGB, whose functions were equivalent to the East Factory and the West Factory of China in Ming Dynasty) was the most effective tool to maintain its autocracy.

After Stalin's death, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and others came to power. Although they are no longer as cruel as Stalin, the shadow of autocracy and chauvinism has always hung over the Soviet Union.

Second, the reasons why the United States claims freedom

After World War II, the United States has replaced Britain as the standard-bearer of the capitalist camp. Moreover, the United States knew that the Soviet Union was undemocratic, and "freedom" naturally became its slogan calling on capitalist countries to unite under its banner and attract dissatisfied socialist countries.

But during this period, the most typical reaction of the United States was "McCarthyism", which opposed * * * and xenophobia. In the name of protecting national security, American citizens no longer have any personal privacy, and countless people have been convicted of ideological crimes and falsely accused of being spies.

In a sense, the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War were actually birds of a feather, and what they advertised and advertised was actually what they didn't have. Democracy has never been unique to western countries. At that time, after the cold war, it was the era of capitalism, and the capitalist world advocated democracy.

Extended data

1On March 5th, 946, Winston Churchill, then British Prime Minister, delivered an "Iron Curtain Speech" in Fulton, USA, which officially kicked off the Cold War. On March 1947 and 12, the Truman Doctrine of the United States came to power, marking the beginning of the Cold War. 1955 The establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization marked the formation of a bipolar pattern.

199 1 the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, followed by the disintegration of the Soviet Union, showed the failure of the Soviet model, marked the end of the Cold War, and also marked the end of the 44-year-old bipolar pattern. The United States has become the only superpower in the world, and the world pattern has become "one superpower and many powers" in the process of world multipolarization.

At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were both "superpowers" in the world. In order to compete for world hegemony, the two countries and their allies fought for decades.

During this period, despite the serious differences and conflicts, both sides tried their best to avoid the outbreak of a large-scale world war (World War III), and their confrontation was usually carried out by "cold" means such as local proxy war, science and technology and arms race, space race and diplomatic competition, that is, "mutual containment without the use of force", so it was called "Cold War".

The cold war is mainly manifested in the confrontation between two major military groups headed by the United States and the Soviet Union. The struggle between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, is the main source of long-term turmoil in the world. The strength of the two major military blocs is equal, and no one dares to use force to end the other's struggle for world hegemony easily.

Both countries have stored a large number of nuclear warheads and promised to destroy each other. After the end of the cold war, coupled with the hardships of the previous World War I and World War II, people all over the world yearned for peace and opposed war.

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