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Originally Posted by Willravel
The was no "good guy" in the cold war, just two competing powers doing everything they could to end up on top. There's no "we were better than them" argument to be made because we both ended up hurting and killing a hell of a lot of people for no good reason.
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Maaaaaaaybe...
No one can deny that both powers acted in their own self interest, but at the very least the US was constrained to some small degree by the it's citizens. The Soviets acted in spite of, and often against their own populace. And yes, I know that someone will bring up Kent State and the McCarthy travesty, but these were aberations in a country otherwise at least nominally held to the rule of law...