The Cold War

Look into all the proxy wars trhat went on

Do NOT paint the US as the good guys and Russia as the bad guys. It's quite the opposite.

American elders were so terrified of communism (and still are) that they constantly threatened Russia, forcing them to retaliate. The only reason Russia wanted to put missiles in Cuba is because the US already had missiles in Germany, Turkey, etc pointing at Russia. The US started the Cold War due to their fear of communism. Hardly anybody in Europe feared Russia, and still don't. Only America is scared of Russia, and that's due to fearmongering in the media planted by the CIA/intelligence community.

Iran-Contra

Counterintelligence efforts

The fact that you call Soviet Union "Russia" it in itself very suspicious.

It's just a reference to the place, although I get your point. I was typing it out on a mobile and couldn't be bothered to keep writing 'the Soviet Union' or 'the Iron Curtain'.

you should definitley cover the time that american and briton decided to start rolling back the iron curtain starting with Albania. they decided to forment an anti communist revolution there by supporting supposed monarchist revolutionaries. except their intelligence bureaus were so thoroughly infiltrated by the KGB the soviets saw them coming a mile off and the albanians were totally prepared. however rather than simply catch their agents the albanians decided to full buttfuck the brits and americans by forcing captured agents to send back the go codes for further airdrops and infiltration, all of which were intercepted the moment they set foot in albania, the albanians even knew where paradrops were going to land and british and american agents were being dropped into areas fully surrounded by the Albanian military.

never forget the time albania completely wrecked the supposed defenders of the free world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Subversion

I think Kim Philby was involved. It's an interesting character. He became fascinated with communism at university (where else), a bunch of people died because of him and when he finally emigrated to the Soviet Union it broke his heart because it was a shithole and nothing like what he imagined. Apparently he tried to commit suicide and in the end he was convincend that at least communism is noble in theory.
There's something really satisfying about this and makes you realize how communist sympathizers think and why you can't reason with them.

that time in the 80's where western soldiers were dispatched to russian nuke silos to help take care of them

>makes you realize why you cant reason with them
except that philby came to totally reasonable conclusions

I don't think that there's anything good about the communist principles. Sharing wealth stops being fun (or economically sound) when it's not with your family or friends.
This story shows that despite countless failures supporters will always find an excuse to keep believing it. Poverty and death? That's nothing. The ideology that promises us paradise must be good dammit.

Do you actually know what communism is?

It's something that you cannot forget and you don't want to have anything to do with it after you break free.

isn't the theme ALWAYS conflict and compromise?

Lasy year it was like pop culture and shit

Well this is pretty much space race in a nutshell. It ended with a joint mission in 1975.

Bay of Pigs Invasion or Cuban Missele Crisis

My favorite part was when a Bay of Pigs survivor captured Che Guevara in Bolivia.
If it happened 20 years later it would be a perfect opportunity for a one-liner like "Remember me?" or "you missed one"

It's a never achieved stateless, classless and moneyless society, you seem to not know what it is just by confusing socialism with Communism.

So socialism is state capitalism?

Commie nations definitely were classless.

Vietnam War

Country attempting communism can still be called communist. But ok what about more serious attempts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
Now this is actual communism. They don't look very friendly. But because statless society is impossible as long as there are any actual countrie nearby it got quickly swallowed by Red Russia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harmony,_Indiana
Here were we have the genesis of socialism. Robert Owen's commune in the United States. And appropriately enough the first chapter of the long history of this ideology ends with a giant failure and Owen was BTFO by his son
>"All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall, for by this unjust plan, they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled, and vicious"
Amen to that.

It's not capitalist at all with industries and services being state-own and shitty.

>Free Territory

so this pic is true, right?

Yeah almost. They all failed though economically. Allende wanted to create a police state and the attempts at making Rosa a good girl is laughable.
I don't know too much about Makhno or Free Territory. If it was just a commune of weirdos and everybody was free to go about their business peacefully I'd have no problems with that. But unfortunately the reality is always different. Revolution doesn't wait for consent and FT was quite large.

Jimmy Carter ended the Cold War by deregulating US oil prices, this allowed the US oil industry to boom and led to the 1980s-1990s oil glut (collapse in the world oil price) which absolutely destroyed the Soviet Union's main source of income.

This was coupled with putting Paul Volcker in charge of the Federal Reserve (which reined in US inflation from the double digits caused by the 1973 oil crisis), which allowed the US economy to boom in the 1990s and saved it from stagnation.

Jimmy Carter is the unsung hero of the Cold War.
Reagan just reaped the spoils.

Ah, I see you've removed Chavez and Venezuela.

Very smart.

Doesn't matter they were all failures. At worst they wanted to spread the revolution further or create a typical totalitarian state. At best they just wanted to reform socialist countries into something resembling democracy with the same economic policies that always lead to bad end.

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My parents always called it Russia, despite living through the height of the Cold War. It's not unusual.

Your parents were American mental midgets.

Many Westerners didn't realize what Soviet Union was and thought they were dealing with slightly more radical socialist Russia but still the same country they knew and disliked.
But it's not just about not including Ukraine or Belarus. Soviet Union was supposed to be something new entirely. Many modern historians openly say that Russia was just the first victim of bolshevism.

Of course it changed overtime. Between 1917-1924 it was basically personification of 19th century international. In Stalin's days it was still more or less the same but with cult of personality. Later it was more mild and I guess people could be excused for calling it Russia because by that time they dropped the idea of global revolution in this early 20th century style.

The average American is an absolute retard when it comes to Eastern Europe. Most of them think Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia still exist.

Trust me older people over there still sometimes say stuff like Czechoslovakia or even Soviet Union.

Yes, I know. I wasn't joking.

>NYT/Huffpo article about Trump supposedly colluding with Russians
>go to comment section
>IS TRUMP A COMMUNIST?
>WOW I THOUGHT RETHUGLIKKKANS HATED COMMIES, WHAT CHANGED
>WE SHOULD CALL HIM COMRADE TRUMP NOW
>tfw

This is extremely biased. Both the US and communist nations did bad shit.

But there's really no comparison between USA and Soviet Union. USA did evil shit but the Soviets were actually evil.

Which never really stopped, they were just good at making it seem as if the cold war had ended
youtu.be/aOjdPTMEgaQ?t=2110
youtube.com/watch?v=OVCoTcTX5E8

Equivocation is for losers.