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1969 was not anywhere near the "red scare" which was in the early 1950s. Anyone living in 1969 would have been well aware of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962,
by reality_czech 12y ago
1969 was not anywhere near the "red scare" which was in the early 1950s. Anyone living in 1969 would have been well aware of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, in which a nuclear war almost broke out, and the USSR's brutal invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the pro-democracy protests there. Pretty much the opposite of "funy."
Anyone reading this document would have known full well that "communists" in this context meant government officials of the USSR, North Korea, or China. All of those regimes had (and two still do) highly censored presses that were indeed not "careful with captions" -- or the lives of people who dared to expose the truth about the government in general.
- jqm 12y agoPlease settle down my friend. I'm not suggesting the Russians didn't abuse the Czechs. It's just the blanket statements and rhetoric (yes, it is rhetoric) used in the article strike me as funny
- charlieh 12y agoStalin was the worst mass murderer in human history, with Mao not far behind. Between them they enslaved almost all of Asia and half of Europe, with no sign that they were content to stop there. They had a nuclear gun pointed at the West's head for several decades. But you think the "rhetoric" was "funny". Just paranoia, no doubt. I've encountered this attitude before (generally, though not exclusively, among those who are too young to remember the heydey of the Marxist slave state), but never quite understood it. So, tell us: just what more could they have done that would have made the threat serious?
- reality_czech 12y agoDo you also read the Diary of Anne Frank and then post "LOL this girl really thought the nazis were after her haha" to Facebook? Because that is how you are coming across here.