Dark Times - Black Market
The Black Market and war both affect almost everyone around the world, but how do they alter each other? From cigarettes to chocolate bars and from Hitler to Gandhi the Black Market rose during World War Two, but it was the result that helped shape the Black Market in Germany. The USSR and the United States of America fought against each other, but they also had to fight against the Black Market around Europe, and that is a war that has yet to end. The United States of America and Afghanistan have been at war and threatening one another for a long time, but in Afghanistan, American soldiers find a way to settle their differences with the Afghans with the one thing all people want, money. A well-known fact is that the …show more content…
Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” That is an excellent quote to show how communism was viewed. Many countries did not like the idea of communism state and that started the Cold War. After WW2 the US and Great Britain had an alliance that occurred during the war. The Soviet Union was a communist state. They also wanted to make all the countries that the Red Army helped during the war become communist states as well. The United States and Great Britain did not want this and wanted all of Europe to have a democracy and market economy. This war took place all over Europe and parts of Asia. One of the parts that the war bordered was Germany. The Americans though enemies in WW2 allied with Germany in the war because the German army did not have any power against either country alone. The Soviet army and the American army fought on Germany’s border. In a War time new article produced by famous journalist Hal Boyle, it is written that though the border was dangerous, but the Black Market prevailed through it. According to Boyle, the border had a “No Man’s Land” for one to two kilometers on either side that was filled with Russian guards or American trained German soldiers. Both sides followed the philosophy of shoot first, explain later. This sounds terrible. Though the danger …show more content…
The country is riddled with war, crime, very poor civil rights, and a thriving Black Market. America’s army has been involved with conflict in the middle east-specifically Afghanistan-for a long time. For almost the same amount of time the United States has participated in Afghanistan’s Black Market. Blueberry Pop-Tarts, Jack Links beef jerky, deodorant sticks, and bodybuilding protein supplements are just some of the American products available in the underground market in Afghanistan. Anything that can be found on an army base there can be sold. These products are sold by American soldiers who find a way to make money while stationed in Afghanistan. Tax dollars are spent on these products yet the soldiers (both American and Afghan) buy them for cheap prices. This affects the war because the Afghan soldiers can also buy steel toe boots, full American camo, and many other military supplies. The war started getting the US into the Black Market in Afghanistan, but the Black Market has affected the war also. The afghan soldiers can use these supplies to help them fight the Americans. This affects the war because the afghans can use the military supplies against them and they do it without the American government. The government puts more and more money into paying for the war yet it is basically getting paid to the Afghan army. This is not the only Black Market in the middle east. There is a market for slaves,