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Some fragments of the info can be found even in wikipedia
I thought you said wikipedia wasn't the most reliable source. But what really tells me this isn't necessarily true is the code name "Dropshot". In the WW2 era, US military code names were generally not related to the operation in any way, like "Overlord" was D-Day, and "Pegasus Bridge" was some air-raid that I've forgotten. "Dropshot" sounds way too obvious for an operation that involves dropping bombs.
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we've never planned anything like that, even during Cuban crisis.
If you never planned on striking with missiles, what were they doing off the coast of Florida?
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search all Soviet archives up to the last piece of paper, you'll find nothing about striking first.
But did you actually look through every last peice of paper in the Soviet archives?
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Stalin offered Finns to exchange that land for bigger land in Karelia, but they refused and War began
And who's fault is that? The Finns' or the Soviets'? If the Finns didn't want to exchange land, the Soviets should have just let it be. Instead they invaded the country, and war began.
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hydrogen bomb (I mean not huge ones for testings, but small and deadly one plane can carry) was created in USSR
I was talking about the huge kind. The US invented it first.
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I do not pretend to be better educated and smarter than you either. It was just my reaction to your words that Soviet education was bad compared to western. I finished my education in post-soviet Russia, but the system itself remained Soviet from the top to bottom. So I'm not ashamed to state that I'm Soviet-educated. :) Soviet education was/is incredibly good in natural scienses, like mathimatics, physics, and such. Considering your last words, I'm think that now we just swithed gates on the same field. :) To be honest, the U.S. reminds me USSR in general.
Yes, the US, in a way, is resembling the USSR more and more. My example of our education system is just one example. Solzhenitsyn wrote another book called Warning to the West, in which he told them to shape up or they would become like their Cold War enemy. As you later say, US-SU is a like a mirror image. I'm afraid you are right.
And I only meant Soviet education was "bad" in the sense that the schools only told the kids that communism was flawless and didn't want them to know otherwise. When it comes to math and science, you're right--their education there was very good. Russians have always been very good at math and science.
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Once I said that to defeat monster one should become more terrible one. It seems that all we left in the past is reborn on the other side of the ocean. I'm even more afraid that U.S. still consider themselves flagman of the free world, though lost that flag somewhere in the way. United States - Soviet Union. US - SU. A mirror. What a bitter irony!
"To defeat the monster, become a more terrible one". President Reagan thought along those lines. He ran a campaign commercial, saying something like "There's a bear [the USSR] in the woods. Some say the bear is tame. But isn't it good to be stronger than the bear, just in case?"
Say, I thought this thread was about Belarus anyway? :)