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In reply to the discussion: State TV says Russia could turn US to 'radioactive ash' [View all]chrisa
(4,524 posts)66. The Cold War was largely laughable for both sides.
The Soviets for their failed image of being a moral, hardworking worker's paradise. In reality, when you weren't sitting around doing nothing in factories that produced nothing, you were living under an authoritarian kleptocracy.
The United States for pushing the meme that Russia could nuke/invade the US at any moment, had this massive army, and was spreading Communism everywhere (and only the US could stop them!).
I'm absolutely certain that these fairytales were invented by profiteers and political bs-artists on both sides for their own benefit. Watch "Red Dawn," for example, for the absolute absurdity of the Cold War.
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I was just thinking that: O'Reilly and this guy in Thunderdome. But it would be more like
Squinch
Mar 2014
#32
I'm 70 years old. The only thing I see possibly developing here is a mutual agreement between
enough
Mar 2014
#2
I'll be 66 this year. I remember the 'nuclear attack drills in elementary school'
olddad56
Mar 2014
#14
I'll be 61 this year - I don't think I can bend myself into the "duck and cover" position anymore
dflprincess
Mar 2014
#19
Newscorp got any shares? RT's AJ, FNN and the GOP work for the Koch JBS crowd.
freshwest
Mar 2014
#9
I was told that the context of what Khrushchev was referring to in that speech is USSR
lostincalifornia
Mar 2014
#31
That was at the UN, wasn't it? I remember seeing that as a kid. And the Cuban missile crisis.
freshwest
Mar 2014
#73
Go nuke scares! Sell more survival bunkers and freeze dried food! Call Infowars now for details!
freshwest
Mar 2014
#12
Absolutely! And I am sooooooo thankful that those right-wing THUGs did not get the helm!
T. J. Kong
Mar 2014
#52
yah well, the US could, twice over and not even seriously deplete its stockpile.
delrem
Mar 2014
#55
So, does this mean Kristol/Giuliani/Palin et. al. go on fellating Putin for being so "manly"
hatrack
Mar 2014
#58
It is worse than FOX. There is no secret that all Russian TV is an arm of Putin.
snagglepuss
Mar 2014
#74