Thread: About Cold War and more

The Soviet Union never threatened the US. Its people did not have negative feelings towards America and Americans (there was a neg. feeling during and after the war because were thought to do nothing and use the Soviet Union to achieve the victory). That was the biggest lie propagated by the US. The history showed that even Soviet leaders were not antiamericanists.

Originally Posted by Marcus

The Soviet Union never threatened the US.

That's true, it has never threatened the US explicitly, but it had said and done enough to show it wants the US to join the Family of the Brother Nations just like any other country.

"Со дня победы пролетарской революции в России вся история человечества наполнена непримиримой борьбой двух миров. [...] Трудящиеся массы капиталистических стран, и в первую очередь рабочий класс, все больше проникаются сознанием, что освобождения от гнета нищеты и безработицы можно добиться только идя по тому пути, который указал рабочий класс Советского Союза. [...] Ленинизм учит, что, пока существует капиталистическое окружение нашей страны, существует опасность интервенции, а следовательно, реставрации капитализма. [...] «...Ошибочно было бы думать, что сфера классовой борьбы ограничена пределами СССР. Если один конец классовой борьбы имеет свое действие в рамках СССР, то другой ее конец протягивается в пределы окружающих нас буржуазных государств. Об этом не могут не знать остатки разбитых классов. И именно потому, что они об этом знают, они будут и впредь продолжать свои отчаянные вылазки.

Так учит нас история. Так учит нас ленинизм.

Необходимо помнить все это и быть начеку»" (ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕ)

Originally Posted by Marcus

Its people did not have negative feelings towards America and Americans (there was a neg. feeling during and after the war because were thought to do nothing and use the Soviet Union to achieve the victory).

During and after the war (I guess you mean the WWII) there was a great deal of friendship between the USSR and the US. Have you ever heard about the lend-lease that helped a lot for the Soviet Union to survive especially through the first toughest years of the war? Have you ever heard a song "На честном слове и на одном крыле" http://vilavi.ru/prot/150307/media/ut_rus.mp3 ? That was very popular in the Soviet Union by the end of the war and in the year of victory and right after the war. It is only years after the WWII ended, during the Cold War that the US was perceived as a "possible enemy" (страна вероятного противника).

That's true there weren't too much of the anti-american feelings, but more or less anti-capitalist feelings which meant the US had to be liberated just like any other capitalist country. All capitalist countries were the target. There was no need to single out the US. If you want to kill a dangerous bull, it's not that wise to tease it, you'd rather pat it first.