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How did the US use hard power against the threat of Communism How did they use soft power?
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How did the Soviet Union think different from the Germans?
The Soviet Union was based on communism (at least in theory). The German government at the same time was very much against communism and its followers were stamped out almost as hard as the Jews were.
Is communism still a threat to the modern world?
This is more of an opinionated question. Communism is basically government control of everything. No personal ownership, no one is better than another, economically-wise. There is no free-market, and you cannot make a profit. Everyone lives to help each other, and the government overlooks the whole process. Communism would be great, that is, if the government could not be corrupted. And it's because of this small but strong reason that people hate communism, and consider it to be a threat. Of course, other reasons are because of what some may call the 'greed' of people, to make a profit, to be rewarded for their hard work, and let others perish for not working hard enough.
How did the communism in Russia influence capitalist societies?
Hardly. So hard, capitalism still is scared by communism.
Reagan's biggest challenge during his first term as president was .?
In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered an invasion of Grenada.
How did the United States use hard power in Korea?
Sample Response: The United States used land forces and the threat of nuclear weapons. ~Apex
What are some good hard core bands?
minor threat, black flag, agnostic front, madball, youth of today, stick to your guns, bad brains, death before dishonor, scream and rise against
Which is true of Japanese kamikaze pilots?
Their attacks were hard to defend against
What is one difference between the hard power and the soft power?
Hard power involves using military force or economic pressure to influence others, while soft power relies on persuasion, diplomacy, and cultural influence. Hard power focuses on coercion and tangible threats, while soft power emphasizes attraction and the ability to shape preferences through non-coercive means.
Why were the soviet agents working so hard to spread communism around the world?
The point of Marxist Communism is to "spread the revolution". One of the most striking differences between Communism and Socialism is that Socialism calls for reform, but Communism calls for revolution.
What aspects of American culture did the soviets perceive as subversive?
There wasn't much in American culture the Soviets didn't find subversive - they pretty much felt our entire society was just one big mess, just as much as we felt about Communism (and still do).However, if you look at the basic principles of Communism and Marxist ideology, and what itself feels as subversive in their own culture, you can apply that to what they thought about us. Knowing that, you can look at what would be a threat to a society in which everything is about the State and not the people.Our Political System - A Republic is based on the foundation that government is accountable to the people. In Communism, everything is the State - period. The problem with that is that those in power always want to do whatever it takes to keep it - not much different than our system, but the biggest difference is that if we don't like our politicians we can get rid of them by voting. Not so in a Communist State.Religion - Freedom of Religion in America is one of the biggest rights we as Americans have. In the Soviet Union, religion was outlawed - the USSR was an atheist state. Religious groups were viewed by the Soviets as a threat to state power, and any threat to state power was not allowed at all.Labor Unions - Same thing - organized groups are threat to state power, as the Solidarity movement in Poland showed. It was that labor union that was the beginning of the end of the USSR and its eastern-bloc allies.American Press/Media (radio, tv, etc.) - In America, Freedom of the Press and the right to Free Speech are at the top of the Constitutional Amendments, and for good reason - it's much harder for people to get away with anything in an open society. All media in the Soviet Union was state controlled, modeled much the same way as the Nazis controlled their press / media for propaganda purposes. Nikita Kruschev named the Soviet state-controlled media as one of the USSR's greatest weapons. In such a society, any freedom of speech, once again, would be a threat to the State. The Soviet gulags (prisons) were full of writers and journalists who had the guts to say what they wanted, against State policy.Capitalism - The biggest threat to the Soviet Union (and the biggest difference between our 2 societies) was our market system, based on individual profit. Communism is about everyone working to provide for everyone else. Sounds good, except the problem with that is that not everyone works as hard as the next guy. Would YOU like to work your a$$ off at a job, only to have the fruits of your labor given to others that didn't work as hard (or not at all?). In the end, it was our market system that helped force the collapse of the Soviet Union - Communism could not produce goods with the type of quality and technology that we took for granted back then. No one wants to buy junk, and about the only things the Soviets ever made that were any good were military in nature.Pretty much anything having to do with individual freedoms and expression of free thinking and free will was subversive in the Soviet mindset, because Communism is about the entire State, and what the State thinks and tells its people to think. Thinking anything other than what you were told to think was subversive.
What are the causes of a squeaky power steering belt?
It's usually caused by an old belt that has been worn and rubbed so hard, that it has a hard, glazed surface on the inside (where it touches the pulleys.) The squeakiness is caused by the hard glaze slipping against the smooth pulleys, (like a rosined bow against a violin string.) Replace the belt if you don't want to hear that tune...
What is the power switch and were is the power switch?
hard
