Following World War II, the United States opposed the economic system of the Soviet Union and its allies because this kind of economy

The Soviet Union and its allies used command economies, in which the government made most decisions about what to produce, how much to produce, and what goods would cost. The United States favored a market economy, where people and businesses have more freedom to make economic choices. Therefore, the key objection was that the Soviet system did not allow people to make free choices.

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