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Why Didn’t Western Countries Develop Like the Soviet Union After World War 2?
Perhaps a weird question to ask, but what are the differences?
The communist Soviet Union was founded in 1922 and was ruled by the Communist party as a one-party state. Although the Soviet Union was officially a union of fifteen subnational Soviet socialist republics, the government and economy were highly centralized.
Until its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union didn’t treat its civilians very well. It is estimated that around 20 million to 61 million people were killed due to the communist regime in the Soviet Union.
“Why didn’t the leaders of the Western countries develop their countries with bloodshed like Stalin did, decades ago?”
I stumbled on this question on Quora.
When I first read this question, I thought it was some joke. Obviously, western countries didn’t want to ‘develop’ their countries as Stalin did back in the USSR. The bloodshed in Soviet states is horrendous, and it’s something we don’t want to happen again.
The Soviet states are the perfect example of why you wouldn’t want a totalitarian communist state. This article will point out some differences between the ‘free’ western world…
