There are not one universal secular system that all agree on.
What Americans doing is different from what Soviets did. If USA and USSR could agree on how things should be, they would not be fighting Cold War. However both would rather burn the world in flames of nuclear war, that live under the other's system. If anything Americans gave weapons to mujahedeen because they would rather see Islamists win than USSR backed communists.
If anything Korea shows differences between systems, American system produced South Korea and USSR's system North Korea. The difference between them is striking. Just 70 years ago they used to be the same people and now.
American System also produced Taiwan and USSR mainland China instead. Nowadays people call it Taiwan but its more or a Americanized China and mainland China is Sovietized one instead. Here we also have Hong Kong (British China) and Makau (Portuguese China). Influence from four different Western countries produced a vastly different versions of China. However none of them want to be part of Soviet China.
USSR collapsed precisely because Russians and other people of the USSR did not want to be part of Soviet system either. Its just that bad. You might say Russians invented Soviet System but most Russians themselves no longer trust it.
Russia too moved on from Soviet past and embraced more Americanized system, at least party. There is debate within country whether it should fully Westernize or stay in post-Soviet hybrid state.
Western (North Atlantic) system mostly won, but some leftovers of Soviet system still linger here and there, in Syria for example. Some people Americans ended up supporting in Afghanistan might had some Soviet connections as well.
On the other hand, under Soviet system Afghanistan would probably look close to Tajikistan. If it was rich, it could be like Turkmenistan instead. In general, Central Asia is a good example of Sovietized Muslim states. It would be between Tajikistan and North Korea.
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