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As a Brazilian that had ti witness the effects of US alliance during cold war... No, hell no. With a friend like that, who needs enemies?
by speeder 13y ago
As a Brazilian that had ti witness the effects of US alliance during cold war... No, hell no. With a friend like that, who needs enemies?
- gadders 13y agoYou had enemies in the cold war. The USSR was much, much worse.
- jeltz 13y agoAre you sure they were? As far as I can tell the US has done more damage in Latin America than any USSR meddling. Stalin was really bad but the USSR was not ruled by Stalin for that long.
- gadders 13y agoThe US in Central America weren't angels, for sure, but I doubt if the USSR funding of left-wing groups was any better. Stalin was a mad man on a par with Hitler, but even under later leaders it was still a repressive regime with Gulags.
- pessimizer 13y ago>I doubt if the USSR funding of left-wing groups was any better. When you say that you doubt it, is that code for having no idea of the impact of Soviet funding in South America, but not being willing to say that you don't know? Or is it just that you know that everything bad that the US did was to counter something even worse that the evil USSR was doing? Missile gap?
- gadders 13y agoIt's code for the funding of Right Wing Groups by the US having been publicised more widely than the funding of Left Wing Groups by the USSR. However, Cuba is a repressive dictatorship which will was funded by the USSR for many years.
- desas 13y agoPrevious to that, it was a repressive dictatorship which was funded by the USA for many years...
- speeder 13y agoThings US did for Brazil: Sent aircraft carriers, ships and soldiers to help depose a democratically elected president, just because he wanted closer ties with China and wanted to do agrarian reform. Disappeared lots of people (I don't know any personally, because I am too young, but I DO know personally lots of people that still want disappeared people back) Spied on us (erm, that part still applies, no?). Sabotaged our agriculture (ie: some plagues started after US agrarian engineers visited us to "help" with our agricultural technology). Supported and funded very repressive crazy dictators that killed boatloads of people. What the USSR did for us during the cold war: Gave us some really cool technical books in spanish (yes, our language is portuguese, but spanish is good enough), I still have a bunch of them, they are really good, somewhere around my house there is calculus books, structural engineering, and lots of other cool stuff, russian books but written in spanish, targeted at Latin America. USSR borrowed us some scientists (Russia and Ucraine still do, by the way). Helped our exiles, not only left wing ones, but right wing ones too. Sold us some very interesting stuff, even if shitty sometimes (example: during the cold war Lada cars were very popular here). Computers! (for example when some companies here tried to develop a computer compatible with the Macintosh, US government helped Apple in forcing them to stop, while Russians borrowed us some engineers and books) Now, who were our real enemies in cold war again?