What nonsense. Our ideology trumped there ideology. When we finally got a president who believed in conservative ideals, the Soviet Union imploded. But up until then, the Soviets had been on the march throughout the world. The list of Soviet client states that arose after WWII was long and included such geographically dispersed countries as Vietnam, Angola, South Yemen, Cuba, Nicaragua.
In fact, until Reagan came along, people were openly questioning whether the West would survive. On a technical level, they had created things such as Sputnik and on a propaganda level they had helped foster the peace movement which lead to our humiliation in Vietnam. So the Soviets were quite competent in extending their power - until they finally ran into a Western leader who believed in capitalism as strongly as the Soviets believed in communism.
You must be too young to remember these things.
I’m probably older than you. No, people were not openly questioning whether the west would survive. The peace movement did not lead to our humiliation in Vietnam, incompetence did. I was there, I remember.