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USSR: The Doomed Empire - Research Papers

USSR: The Doomed Empire

Introduction:
The 1940's and the next four decades after, were a time of bitter
struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. National identity as well as
ideological differences brought both countries to the brink of nuclear war, a
revolutionary style of warfare causing the most disastrous demographic disaster
known to man. There are numerous speculations on who actually started the war.
It can be argued both ways that both the US and the USSR acted offensively
towards each other. But the only real fact is that “one represented an open
democracy and the other a closed totalitarian system” and both were the only
real superpowers left standing after World War II.1 This split ...

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factors.
What America proved was that the economy works best when the government
stays out and individuals within the society do the work.2 It is only the
individuals within the society that truly understand what products are in demand.
Under Communist regime a few select rulers decide what are the needs of the
society, what resources are their country's scarcities, and how to obtain these
scarcities. Finding this information is a big job and requires endless amounts
of domestic attention. With this in mind the quote “Nature's laws are
immutable... Communism is only an ideal dream”3 becomes much clearer. One
leader simply does not have enough time nor money to invest in the acquisition
of thorough and accurate knowledge pertaining to the country's economic system
(especially a country as large as Russia). But I am not writing to debate
whether communism can or can not work but that America/Democracy did not really
beat Russia/Communism in the Cold War. Russia/Communism ...

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Added: 2/5/2007 05:40:50 PM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1105
Pages: 5

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