Thread: An alternative view of the USA & some other countries

Perhaps, US had similar plans regarding us. ))) Still, according to Soviet propaganda of these days, USSR was a peaceful country Our nuclear forces were merely the means of defense against the frothing lunatics in the White House who dreamed about world's domination.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Perhaps, US had similar plans regarding us. ))) Still, according to Soviet propaganda of these days, USSR was a peaceful country Our nuclear forces were merely the means of defense against the frothing lunatics in the White House who dreamed about world's domination.

Well, they should have had different plans. Honestly, I think the NATO's strategic situation was hopeless by the early '80s. The NATO might have had some local tactical victories, but strategically in Europe it had nothing to prevent a possible SU assault and had to solely rely on its strategic ballistic missiles. So, the only question the SU had - will the Soviet Army be successful enough to deactivate the missiles to prevent the SU from the total destruction? The US made all the attempts to distribute their nuclear weapons and make them hard to reach. However, at some point someone woke up in NATO (perhaps they realized what Andropov's ascending to the Soviet Throne might mean), so they started the SDI out of no other choice available. Which definitely made the situation much worse right away.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Perhaps, US had similar plans regarding us. ))) Still, according to Soviet propaganda of these days, USSR was a peaceful country Our nuclear forces were merely the means of defense against the frothing lunatics in the White House who dreamed about world's domination.

Did the citizens of the USSR hear about the Cuban missile crisis as it was happening?

Originally Posted by fortheether

Did the citizens of the USSR hear about the Cuban missile crisis as it was happening?

Till October, 26th 1962 USSR denied it had deployed missiles on Cuba.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Perhaps, US had similar plans regarding us. ))) Still, according to Soviet propaganda of these days, USSR was a peaceful country Our nuclear forces were merely the means of defense against the frothing lunatics in the White House who dreamed about world's domination.