The ideological propaganda of capitalism and communism did not arise in the Cold War. It had been happening since the 1920s, with the consolidation of communism in Russia; it grew in the 1930s during the Great Depression that affected capitalist countries (see Crisis of 1929), and intensified globally after the end of World War II and in the context of the Cold War.
Soviet propaganda pointed to the huge social inequalities, misery, unemployment and moral decay of the capitalist world. It denounced the racism and prejudice existing in capitalist countries as discriminatory laws and violence against the black population of the United States. On the other hand, he emphasized the superiority of the communist regime, in which the State guaranteed jobs, education and housing for the citizen. He valued the collectivist spirit of communist society in which industrial and agricultural production was distributed equally to the population. He emphasized that the communist economy was planned to avoid economic crises and financial oscillations so common in capitalist countries.