Dear Scumbria:
Then you have egg on your face about the Gorbachev crack.
He was not in power when the policy was formed period. Brezhnev was and was an active invader at that time.
Re: "Having gotten to know several dozen Russians from the Soviet Union, I have developed an understanding of how our Government used us during the cold war. The fear and paranoia which the US Government stimulated was quite self-serving. Did you ever see the movie "Red Dawn", where the Soviets came and invaded a small town in Colorado? I was running a movie theater at the time (1985, in Los Alamos), and the fearful reaction to that movie gave me a hint of how deeply brainwashed the American public was."
I was not scared of "Red Dawn". It was based on a stupid premise that we would not know an invasion was planned of us especially considering the determination to never let our guard down after Pearl Harbor. Yes, where was NORAD, NSA, CIA, Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, etc. during this invasion?
My father's Russian parents were in Moscow during "Red October" in 1917. They left at that time and went to France. My dad was born in France and was caught in Germany during WWII with his parents. They lived in a tall smokestack in Hamburg (actually a good place to be since it was a landmark used by allied bombers for navigation and thus, safe from being bombed). They left after the war and came here to Wisconsin. My grandparents still kept some correspondence with relatives in the USSR, during the time they were alive. The economy was always going downhill after WWII and was never in great shape. But they never considered that the USSR military was ineffective nor were they unafraid of it themselves (those still there). They did not consider that the USSR was a house of cards nor should we have either.
Your revisionist tendencies must be driven from your desire to rant and rave over Republican Presidents past and present. Your arguments hold little water wrt politics and are shown to be quite false most of the time.
Pete |
