Thinker101
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It seem sto me that becuase the Soviet Union was our enemy, and it was based on an economic philosophy, many American believed that we HAD to be the OPPOSITE of what ever they Soviet Union was. So since the Soviet Union was socialist/communist we HAD to be the opposite - Capitalist.
In fact the Constitution says no such thing.
Actually, since we were the enemy, the Soviet Union probably felt they HAD to be the OPPOSITE of whatever we were.
The Soviet Union was Communist long before the cold war started. In fact they were our allies during WWII.
The last thing on the minds of the Russian people during their communist revolution was any concern about the U.S.
Imagine that, and we were capitalists long before the cold war stated. Russia became communist in 1917, we became predominantly capitalist in 1900, although there were flavors of capitalism going back to 1600.