Cold War Memories

So nobody forgets the attitude of Western liberals during the Cold War: remember how they believed that the big "H" History of Marx was on the march and we, the democratic capitalist nations of the world, were going to be mowed over. They believed it was our fate: how could anybody stand up to the might of the Red Army and this ideology that fueled them? And with nations falling like dominoes, how long would it be before our turn came up? Besides, their system is more fair anyway. "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability." (I'm paraphrasing)
I comment on this because I started reading a book about the history of Fluid Mechanics and in the beginning, the author is explaining the importance of water as a fluid. He is describing a Soviet plan to use solar energy to distill water when he says:

Even in the USSR, which has a planned economy and therefore cannot be regarded as the most wasteful country in the world, each year some 3,000,000 tons of acids, 2,000,000 tons of oil products, 1,000,000 tons of fats, and hundreds of thousands of tons of salt, fibres and metal are dumped into rivers.
In the United States (undoubtedly the most wasteful country) whole rivers and lakes are being polluted to such an extent that they can no longer be used for drinking or swimming purposes.

Those parenthesis are not my editorial comments. Those were his thoughts. He clearly believed that Communism was superior. This book was published in 1971, when this sort of thought reached a fever pitch (culminating in sissy boy Jimmah!'s stern rebuke of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the Olympics). This was a typical attitude among academics and the left in general during this time period. Never forget that. Whenever you argue with a liberal about the Cold War, never cease to remind them of this.