The U.S. and Russia have been big rivals for the past half century. They both were against each other during the Cold War. The Cold War between the U.S. and Russia went on from 1947 to 1991 which the United States ultimately won. After the Cold War the Soviet Union (Russia) disbanded and Russia’s economy collapsed. Russia also employed a failed system of government called Communism which is pretty much exactly like how the farm in the Animal Farm, the book we are reading in English, is run. It sounds great on paper, but in truth it is a corrupt failed form of government. In Communism the government owns everything, the people don’t even own their own property. Communism did collapse at the end of the Cold War, but Russia still remains a corrupt …show more content…
has had some dark moments in it’s history. For example the Civil War which the U.S. overcame and although there were 1.496 million casualties ie: deaths, wounded, captured/missing it wasn’t nearly as bad as the Russian Civil War which resulted in 2,712,824 casualties. The Russian Civil War was much more bloody and gruesome than the U.S. Civil War. The U.S. has had some bad leaders but no leaders nearly as bad as some of Russias. For example the dictator Joseph Stalin has between 34 and 49 million deaths linked to him about 30 million of those were his own citizens, compared to Hitler who killed about 6 million people and everyone considers Hitler one of the most evil people in history. Russia didn’t even invent very many military inventions, they just made their own versions of what other people created. The nuclear weapon, which is commonly associated with Russia, was invented by the United States during the Manhattan Project in the 1940’s. In fact most of Russia weapons we invented by either the U.S. or other countries. Hiram Maxim, an American, invented the first machine gun which is a widely used throughout the world by many countries including Russia. Russia’s bomber planes that they have now, were copied from outdated U.S.