Think about it, the Cold War wasn't such a bad experience. Jobs for everyone, no running rampant lefties, no gay parades and SSM, good movies, even better music, clean (non-GMO) food, low crime rate, no rampant immigration, no diabetes epidemic, no Internet/game addiction, good universities, low student loan level, no PC (political correctness), science was going strong.... The Capitalist countries knew their place and the Communist countries knew their place. What's not to like about it?
What the Democrats and some of the neocons forget, with a cold war comes all of the hot shooting proxy wars. During the first Cold War (1947 - 1991) there were 76 proxy wars that were fought. The Vietnam War was just one proxy war that was fought, just one battle fought during the Cold War. So swas responsible for starting Cold War ll ? Barack Obama and his incompetent administration, Hillary Clinton and a few neocons (RINO's) like Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham with a whole lot of help of fake news from CNN, NBC / MSNBC, Washington Post and the New York Times.
The Cold War kept the little nations in line. Neither side would stand for them getting uppity and loosing focus on the Red Menace or Capitalist. No Chechen terrorist. No Islamist terrorist. Less anarchy in the good ole days of the Cold War. We had more domestic security. M.A.D. worked. Moi r > g Got A Free Ride In The Cold War!
No Russian oligarchs, no Russian Mafia. I suppose it's part of the price to pay for freedom and richness.
Really? Go ask some Russians for example, many of them still miss the USSR. As for the nuclear threat, it's hasn't gone anywhere.
Do you think I'm blind? That's just the guy's opinion. I can find you millions of quite the opposite opinions.
Well why do you ask me for an example if there's one right here in your thread besides... it's just your opinion also... what makes yours better than his... he lived there
The nuclear threat hasn't gone away, no, but it has changed countries. No longer Russia but North Korea, Pakistan, China.
Indeed Russia in 2017 is much more free and rich and advanced then USSR 1983. I am neither Russian nor American -- I am Jewish by ethnicity and religion.
I think if it weren't for sanctions, Russia would have had a very powerful economy by world standards, they were doing extremely well early 2000's prior to sanctions
Probably so. In Russia GDP per capita of $27,000 per year by price parity is six times what it was in USSR. Most families do have cars.
The nuclear threat is greater today as there isn't just two sides that have nucs. And who knows who is going to gain control of the various Islamic Bombs, or the Hindu Bomb, or the North Korea Bomb and so it goes. The threat is greater today. My Ex-Mother & Father in Law, Russian old pensioners, had it better in the days of the USSR. He liked Stalin. She liked Khrushchev, as I do. They keep losing services such as bus fares. Also the price of food and pension ratio is worse with no USSR.
It is a shame how the oligarchs acquired "the people's" wealth. Factories given away to private Russians , sold for parts and buildings left as hollow shells. Add to the cultural tendency towards corruption the behaviors of The West to sabotage the Russian economy - we can only wonder how great it could be. Russia is a rich land. Just terribly mismanaged through out its' history. I have Russian pensioner in laws who lost economic footing since the collapse of the USSR. And I know younger folks with high tech jobs or working for a western nation's company branch in Moscow. They like the new Russia. Unfortunately, they are in the elite Petrograd - Moscow corridor where people do have it better. A shame Vladivostok isn't really up and running. And so it goes
I have to agree. By the 70's only the USA and USSR had ICBM's while the UK, France and the Chi-Coms had nuclear bombs and short range and intermediate tactical ballistic missiles. Both the USA and the USSR weren't stupid and knew exactly what would result with a nuclear exchange.
