[Alter Kaker]

Note: should have read, "in a way that the Soviets never were.

[The Red Zone]

The only reason the Soviets never were, was because the United States out arms raced and out spent them till they went kerflooie (technical term). Had the United States been forced to say Uncle to Stalin and his heirs... well, I think you can see the outcome. Not much prettier than a Nazi infested world.

[GSlob]

"should have read, "in a way that the Soviets never were."
Then you are dead wrong, dear Sir/Madam: nazism was an aberrational phenomenon which, however, was squarely within the Western Civ - and thus could not have been a threat to it; more, to a large extent it arose as a response to the Red menace. The Red [collectivist] menace, OTOH, has been, and is, an existential threat to the Western Civ.