Did Reagan misunderstand them?
2006-10-21 02:59:10 · 7 answers · asked by John 16 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Only a very young person in a liberal college would ask this question. I am a child of the Cold War. I watched Kruschev bang his shoe on the UN podium and proclaim to the U.S., "We will bury you". I was 17 during the Cuban Missile Crisis which was 3 days of hell for all of us.
Regardless of what the libs are teaching you, I was there. I saw it. I lived through it. I remember the headlines and the threats going back and forth. I remember the mindset of the times, something liberal professors choose to ignore.
Instead of asking young liberals, ask the people who lived under the old USSR. Ask the chechs, the slavs, all the people who endured that life under the communist regime. They would know much more than American liberals.
2006-10-21 03:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by Nancy W 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The old USSR provided the background for the great Beatles song "Back in the USSR".
And the USSR helped defeat Hitler.
Those are the only two good things that I can think of that resulted from the USSR.
Disclosure statement: Not a liberal, not a conservative, I am a moderate.
2006-10-21 03:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The old USSR was a superpower in the days when that counted for something. They wasted their hegemony, destroyed their mandate and faded into history.
The US is now busy doing the same.
Reagan was the original neocon. He did not misunderstand them: he fed his military contractor buddies and bilked the treasury to do so
2006-10-21 03:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I wouldn't have wanted to live there.
People weren't free to question their government. They weren't free to have elections. They weren't free to make choices about a lot of things.
There wasn't a lot of economic opportunity. People basically got what the state gave them.
Since the economy was a planned economy, there wasn't a lot of innovation.
Historically, there's more bad than good that came from the Soviet Union. Initially, the US response was correct in not wanting Soviet style communism to spread.
Communism, like laissez-faire capitalism, sounds good on paper but it doesn't work in the real world. It cuts out too many human freedoms.
2006-10-21 03:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by dgrhm 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The old USSR was a communist wreck.
2006-10-21 03:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why not contact Castro, ask if you can go there and you can learn first hand. Hope you enjoy it. Sounds like you will fit in just fine.
2006-10-21 03:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by Heidi 4 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not one liberal took the bait son. Maybe they are learning?
Nah!
2006-10-21 04:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by John16 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋