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Now, my scope of life-experience with this matter is limited, but the more I read, the more I wonder how much the Cold War was about communism, and how much of it was about the Russians just being, well, Russian.
My generation was SUPPOSED to be defined by the fall of the Berlin Wall, SUPPOSED to live in the sweet Apple Pie days of the pre-tech bust '90s, forever and ever, amen. "End of History," and so on and so forth. When the towers fell, I decided that a fat, aging, cornered, but polarizing Soviet Union might have made for a safer, more clear-cut world. I missed the Cold War I never got to know. And I often wondered if that sentiment was naive; too "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Truth," in it's own way.
And I'm not normally one to worry and fret, but I do see a trend here, and I wonder where it will take us. Should I be careful what I've wished for?
Now, my scope of life-experience with this matter is limited, but the more I read, the more I wonder how much the Cold War was about communism, and how much of it was about the Russians just being, well, Russian.
My generation was SUPPOSED to be defined by the fall of the Berlin Wall, SUPPOSED to live in the sweet Apple Pie days of the pre-tech bust '90s, forever and ever, amen. "End of History," and so on and so forth. When the towers fell, I decided that a fat, aging, cornered, but polarizing Soviet Union might have made for a safer, more clear-cut world. I missed the Cold War I never got to know. And I often wondered if that sentiment was naive; too "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Truth," in it's own way.
And I'm not normally one to worry and fret, but I do see a trend here, and I wonder where it will take us. Should I be careful what I've wished for?