Undoubtedly after World War II, two countries emerged as world super powers. The Soviet Union and United States were holding plastic knives to the throats of themselves, each other, and the rest of the Eastern hemisphere. Little did the rest of the world know those plastic knives were coated in arsenic that could contaminate the entire Earth if one were cut, or one missile fired. These countries and their brutish displays of wealth and power stood for the ideals of Communism and Democracy respectively. However, one ideal came out of the stranglehold victorious. The Soviet Union was crushed due to it's lack of resources to promote prosperity within it's own borders and to all other Communist nations, despite communism at it's core advocating
