Difference Between The Cold War Between 1960 And 1980

Repressed Free Thinking In Between 1960 and 1980 most of Europe and Russia wasn’t a good place to be. There were tensions and fears brought on by the Cold War. People were not allowed to freely think and express their opinions from behind the Iron Curtain. There was also an extreme lack of Human Civil Rights under Joseph Stalin’s rule and several years after. Furthermore it's clear why the Soviet Union wasn’t a good place to live if you were a free thinking human being. A notable event during this era, that included the Soviet Union, was the Cold War. The Cold War was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and caused by the tensions created after WWII. The biggest conflict in this war was the disagreement between Capitalism and Communism. There were also hidden underlying issues the countries did not agree on, such as Human Civil Rights. Both sides of the war avoided military action
More often than not, opinions vary cause things from trivial arguments in the everyday life, to wars between countries. Consequently causimg several lives to be lost. While the Cold War was mostly about the differing opinions of Capitalism and Communism, it was also about Human Civil Rights. With the U.S. and the SOviet Union being in a stalemate with their military power, neither side knew what actions to take. The Iron Curtain kept people of the Soviet Union from thinking freely, by keeping them away from the influence of free thinking non-Communist countries. Then Joseph Stalin violated several Human Civil Rights from depriving his people of privacy, to not allowing them to express their opinion that didn't agree with the Soviet Union’s line of thinking. For if they did, they risked getting imprisoned by Stalin’s secret police force. For these very reasons, the Soviet Union during this time period wasn't a good place to be if One was a free thinking human, which is notable the majority of the human