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The U.S. believed that citizens should be allowed to criticize the government and its decisions, and the Soviet Union believed criticism of the government by citizens should be illegal.
The correct answer is D) The U.S. believed that citizens should be allowed to criticize the government and its decisions, and the Soviet Union believed criticism of the government by citizens should be illegal.
The statement that correctly compares differences in beliefs between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War is "The U.S. believed that citizens should be allowed to criticize the government and its decisions, and the Soviet Union believed criticism of the government by citizens should be illegal."
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had many differences and this created what is called the Cold War. The USSR and the Unites States competed in an arms race to build the best and most powerful nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union wanted to spread Communism in many parts of the world, meanwhile, the US wanted to stop it. Through the years, the world lived tense moments due to this rivalry. One of the worst moments in the relationship of Russia and the US was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
One of the limitations that the Soviet government imposed its citizens was the prohibition to express freely about the government. Meanwhile, in the US, people always had freedom of speech and freedom of the press.