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Yup. So, no sane US officer would dare to start a nuclear war having that thought in mind. (And it was broadly assumed that the US was doing the same kind of screening and testing to ensure only the...

You see, when I first read that story by Bradbury, I haven't really realized that fact. Also, in his Fahrenheit 451, if you remember, Bradbury has the [evil] cities destroyed and I never really...

Maybe, today's adults are the former kids... ;)
I guess, the kids these days might be more focused on their iGadgets and on fitting their virtual company than on how to fit their society better.....

To tell the truth, I joined the Comsomol simply not to stand out of the crowd. I was not a hero (and I'm not a hero now) to fight the system I dislike. The whole society those days was not really...

Думаю, ты прав.


Полагаю, что это враньё. Подстроился под новую коньюнктуру. Не будучи коньюнктурщиком, товарищ такой карьеры бы не сделал.


Угу. Чувак явно делает из лимона лимонад. Он же...

Минутку, всё это было. Ты считаешь, что Горбачёв всё это задумал с 1985 года и знал, что всё именно так и получится? Для меня в то время это выглядело как отчаянные и безумные попытки чего-то там ещё...

Исключительно карьеристы и проходимцы. Процесс начинался с комсомольских вожаков. Все говорили правильные слова, и при этом беспринципно стремились к власти и благам, невзирая ни на что. Высшая цель...

I think you're putting too much emphasis on the propaganda. Propaganda is a lot, but not everything. Mostly, people would trust their own experience, not the way it was explained by somebody else.
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What do you think about the Berlin Crisis? People were fleeing from the Eastern side to the Western side. Was it because of the effective propaganda? ;)
You see, I agree with your point that the...

Yes, Stalin said that and even documented that. But, remember the bull? Why had Stalin established the communist regimes in the Eastern Europe? Wasn't it according to the idea of shrinking the...

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...

That's right. I think that was part of the project Excalibur Project Excalibur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main idea was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the orbit and let it power a series...

Well, it went both sides. Militarisation of space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable...

The space shuttles were one of the key components of the SDI. It was estimated that the cost to deploy the nuclear weapon onto space and maintaining it there would be reduced by the space shuttles.

I can't tell for sure as I did not witness that, but my impression of the 50s-60s in the USSR was the euphoria of the achievements and an image that the US cannot match the USSR. It was more like:...

I think it was very difficult to say who had almost started the WWIII. The Cuban Missile Crisis is as controversial today as it was back then. Let us seat ourselves in a high office of the military...