Question

read the quotation from an important cold war leader below. which countrys economic system do you think the speaker is criticizing in this quotation? yet even if we accepted the claim that a communized system will eventually equal our productivity - which, of course, we do not - we would still reject it. for a complete communization of the means of production will succeed only under a dictatorship. we would prefer poverty in freedom to riches in slavery. a. ghana b. the united states c. india d. the soviet union

Explanation:

The Cold - War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Western Bloc (led by the US) and the Eastern Bloc (led by the Soviet Union). The Soviet Union had a communist economic system with the complete communization of the means of production. The quote criticizes a communized economic system, which aligns with the Soviet Union's economic model during the Cold - War.

Answer:

D. The Soviet Union