I agree with Doomer. Growing up during this era, I used to think both super powers were EQUALLY bad - that they had different pros and cons.
But lately as I have learnt more about what went on politically, geographically and economically during the Cold War, it seems to me that the USA was actually the more aggressive, and that historical facts support this.

It also offered a more initially appealing lifestyle, in what it said that it represented. But this was not consistently applied.
The propaganda of the USA was also spectacularly more successful than the propaganda of the USSR.
That is not saying that the USSR was always acting morally or respectfully towards their own citizens and sometimes citizens of other countries.

But I think it is a real shame that the USA is regarded today as the morally righteous victor of the Cold War, and the USSR as the evil loser....!
Things were nowhere near that simplistic!

It's a pity if American and other school children, like Rockzmom's daughters, are not given the full picture.
I can't help to wonder what Russian children are taught about this era?

I noticed that young people in Sweden toay are convinced that the USSR was "evil...." While I grew up it was not like that, but presented differently - a much more nuanced view of both super powers - neither was glorified or blackpainted. But nowadays the Cold war is simplified as a struggle between good and evil, where good (represented by the US) won. I really object to that and I suspect that lots of people in Russia and ex Soviet countries don't agree with it either.