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Well. Lets not forget that Soviet Russia had a nasty habit of killing millions of people, mostly IIRC its own inhabitants,-for all kinds of reasons. In fact I
by reitanqild 11y ago
Well. Lets not forget that Soviet Russia had a nasty habit of killing millions of people, mostly IIRC its own inhabitants,-for all kinds of reasons.
In fact I guess Soviet Russia has killed a few tens of millions more people than USA.
Fear of the USSR was completely justified. (Sadly so was fear of USA in some countries.)
- Zigurd 11y agoFear of the Soviet Union was not unjustified, but America's visibility into the realities inside the Soviet Union were limited and inaccurate. Recently, failures like this have been documented: http://www.matthewaid.com/post/51394955674/debacle-the-cias-failed-agent-penetration http://www.matthewaid.com/post/51394955674/debacle-the-cias-... Rumors of people recruited in to these operations coming back from Soviet territory one piece at a time were well known in the emigre communities in the '60s and '70s. The Soviet Union actually had the wherewithal to be an existential threat. But intelligence about the Soviet Union wasn't exactly brilliant.