“How did the US win an economic war against an enemy whose population and industrial base were half-annihilated in living memory? Clearly it was the power of blue jeans and Rock & Roll.”
“How did the US win an economic war against an enemy whose population and industrial base were half-annihilated in living memory? Clearly it was the power of blue jeans and Rock & Roll.”
I had this question as a written discussion in sociology class and I really did the Putin 4000 year history rundown, was pretty funny how everyone else did exactly as you said and put it all on blue jeans and central planning.
I wish I could read it
Liberals are idealists who believe in a titanic moral struggle between good and evil, in their mind the USSR “losing the Cold War” was a divine punishment from the cosmos for their negative gommulist 1984 karma. Quite literally magical thinking
One of the hardest truths I had to learn in becoming a Marxist-Leninist was that not only can the bad guys win, they win a lot.