The Cold War was a real war, not a metaphorical war. It was life and
death. It was between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was
fought not with guns and bullets, but by other means. It started in
1949 AD, when the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons.
It dragged on interminably because neither side could find a way to
win. Having nuclear weapons means that no one can attack you
militarily. Nuclear weapons are a defensive weapon. So, although
both sides were at war, they could not fight each other militarily.
Ronald Reagan found a way to win. He secretly was a Sun Tzu
strategist. In another life, he read and understood Sun Tzu's the Art
of War. He decided to destroy the Soviet Union economically. He
deliberately foisted a huge arms buildup in the United States, knowing
that the Soviet Union would have to keep up. He destroyed the Soviet
Union's economy.
Re: Nazis without Hitler ... much of Hitler's war aims, which were to conquer large parts of the ...Soviet Union as part of the expansion of the Aryan race. ... As long as Hitler couldn't force a peace on Britain,... In WWI, Germany with some less powerful allies fought Russia, Britain, ... (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
O.T.-re congratulation to our brit friends ... How crypto-Marxism won the Cold War...Crypto-Marxism, a barely disguised revival of the old farce, is flourishing in our chattering classes. ... The prestige that Marxism lost in the real world soon came back in fantasy. ... The Marxists had seventy years in the Soviet Union, and managed to kill 100 million people according to Marxist historians themselves. ... (rec.martial-arts)
Re: Cold War Winner ...war with the USA. ... launch a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union - an inaccurate ... tendency of the USSR towards having conspiratorial and paranoid views ...United States first strike on the Soviet Motherland was imminent." ... (rec.sport.football.college)
Re: Who or What Ended the USSR and the Cold War? ... of the Cold War.... collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... In 1985, I spoke with a Professor of Russian History, and he stated that the USSR was in a deep internal struggle between the communists, who represented an "internationalist" point of view - that is, one that overlooked as much as possible the ethnic differences of the peoples that comprised the Soviet Union, and those who would balkanize the USSR to achieve local power among an ethnic majority in any of the republics. ... If I may reflect on a broader field, nationalism has been a powerful force in the last few decades of the 20th century. ... (rec.arts.books)
