Democracy vs Communism

Democracy is a number of small related forms of Goverment. Meanwhile Communism is basically a theory or system of Social organization based on the holding of all property in common. The next couple of paragraphs will go more in depth's on these subjects and then I will tell you why America had a Democracy and Russia had a Communism Goverment during the Cold War.
The United States built a representative democracy during this time. Democracy is based on majority rule. Democracy makes the elections free and fair because they are letting the people of the United States choose who they want to lead there countries. Democracy protects and respects the human righs. Democracy keeps on growing in the world it as popped up in Greece, Rome, South Asia and North and South America. Democracy emphasizes the importance of the individual in the context of goverment. It is a major influence around the world today.
Communism is a political goal that is a form of social organization. Some communists holds a variety and a couple of them is Marxism Leninism and also something called Trorskyism. When I think of Communism I know it is not good. "He
is hunter, fisherman or shepherd or "critical critic," and must
remain so if he does not want to lose the means of subsistence
-whereas in the Communist society, where each one does
not have a circumscribed sphere of activity but can train him­
self in any branch he chooses." Marx 1. I am not sure if the United States ever had to go through this but I never want us to go through this.
The cold war is a very big subject to cover in History. The United States were taking on The Soviet Union. The United States had a representative democracy and the Soviet Union was under Communists people. At this time there was a group of 21 people called the Bolsheviks. "The Bolsheviks later known as the All Russia Communist Party and the Communist party of the soviet Union placed the liberation of the productive potensial of the people at the core of the political process." Westad 40. These people took two cities, the main one was Mascow. They changed the name to the Communist Party. Now the new form of goverment was Communism and this had a lot more power than it should of had. It had so much power because they just taken the one of the biggest city's over.
For this question I told you what I thought about Communism and democracy. Why were they good and why they were bad. I am glad that we were not under communism at this time. I am glad we were under democracy.
Marx Karl, Capital The Communist Manifesto and other writings. The modern Library, New York.
Westad Arne Odd, The Global Cold war. Cambridge Univercity Press. 2005