Here is the fact that embrasses both Reagans attitude toward communism and the West, where you can find out how it is different very easily. The difference, indeed, was slight - Reagan prevented theexpansion of communism to the cornerstone of his foreign policy in other words he just beated communism and caused it to fall. He said that through doing this he pun an end to the most violend period of American History. But there is one phrase that he said about the West which shows the difference in simple words : "the West won't contain communism, it will transcend communism."