Quote Originally Posted by nulle View Post
I was born in the USSR - and I consider it evil too...
USSR collapse was one of the best things in XX century - People locked up in prison of nations were finally free (but sadly many did not know what to do wih their newly acquired freedom).
Your expressed your views on this forum multiple times, and I believe that most people aware now that your view of the USSR is very simplistic and negative (not to say biased).

I was born in the USSR too, and I see it in much more favorable light. Sadly, the winners rewrite history (which is a natural order of things), and now most of its nicer aspects are forgotten or belittled.

I'd like to know (if anyone here can tell) what the level of "nuclear war hysteria" among Soviet citizens was at the time (the 50s-60s). Were they as concerned as Americans? I can't remember hearing about anything as extreme as American "home-made" bomb shelters, and later, in the 80s the atmosphere was very much relaxed, despite occasional talk about WWIII or American nuclear threat. We studied what we should do during the nuclear strike at school, but no one took it very seriously. The possibility of actual nuclear war seemed very small.