The economies of Western Euopean recovered quickly after World War 2 in part because of aid from the Marshall Plan.
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Russia was committed to Communism and Russian citizens were trying to leave because of a dismal economy. Russia was convinced that Communism would work and was threatened by the success of Western economies. They closed their borders and entered into the cold war in an attempt to prove their capabilities.
Western nations were prepared to use force to stop the spread of communism.
The Nazi concentration system was the ultimate nightmare of Western industrialization because of all the deaths. They were designed similar to Western factories but received a bad reputation because of the Nazis.
Soldiers in WW1 were shell-shocked because of the horrors of war that they saw in which their brains never truly recovered from