Technically, citizens could vote for their leaders, but, during Stalin's reign at least, there was only one name on the ballot. Voting was more of a way to prove one's loyalty.
The Cold War was between the democracy of the West and the communist ideology of the Russian Soviet Union.
The US was fighting the USSR, or the Soviet Union, in the cold war. Mostly, though, it was democracy against communism.
The Cold War started in 1945 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Cold War was between the Soviet Union and Western democracies.
Communism was the enemy of democracy the soviet union was communist and the USA was democratic the whole war and an almost WWIII was fought over stopping communism of course WWIII was avoided and now the soviet union is no more
The Soviet Union (USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
-He was the primary leader in the ending of the Cold War -He transformed the Soviet Union into a democracy -Allowed other communists regimes to be overthrown by people (i.e. East Germany) -Cultural and Social freedom in the Soviet Union
Political differences Soviet Union was communist and wanted to spread communism around the world USA was anti communist and prevent communism spreading and install democracy
The major rivals in the cold war was America and Soviet Union (Russia).
Cold war was invented by NASA
Several men presided over the Soviet Union during the Cold War; the last leader of the Soviet Union was Boris Yel'tsin.
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