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But the article dives into the history that we like to glance over in history class... The US has a long history of supporting narco-states, fascists, other brutal dictators, and terrorist states (could be argued that the USA might be one itself). Usually this was done in the name of "anti-communism" but now its done in the name of "fighting the war on terror" and "spreading liberty and democracy".
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First off, the whole point of this thread was an attempt to say "the US is the bad guy, the USSR was the good guy". Has the US done ****ty things? Yes, but find a country which hasn't. Especially compared to the USSR the United States has been far morally superior.
Just to give you one example, while we were rebuilding Western Europe with the Marshall Plan the Soviets were stealing everything that wasn't nailed down and shipping it eastwards. They also rejected Marshall Plan aid in favor of "shoot anyone who complains about starving in the face, then they won't starve".