RE: Inside Stalin's Secret Underground Propaganda Machine
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Your insight into how their independence and self-reliance made them almost inevitable enemies of the west is actually quite profound. This has unfortunately been the case for much of the modern era... If you don't acclimate to the globalist agenda, then you are an enemy of it. In reality, all over the world are people just doing the best they can to just live on.
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That's definitely the case these days. In the past it was clear that this region was giving the west a challenge. The space race being a major sign of that. The USSR was growing rapidly, it had no care for the cost of discovery, as long is it did discover something. And the west was already struggling to justify the cost of things then. If the USSR wasn't a real threat, the US in particular would not have panicked so much about them.
And on the other side it's clear that the USSR was also very much afraid of war with the west. Tbilisi is a city that has nuclear bunkers scattered throughout it. You'll find them in parks, by the roads, or to the sides of former admin buildings near factories. They genuinely feared that the west would drop nukes on them.
The USSR was soon under the control of total idiots though and being tricked into the Afghan war was the first grave mistake that set the collapse into place. Funnily in the end even the Afghans were too much for the west as well. Both sides massively developing their weapons industries and scientific capabilities just to both make the mistake of fighting and losing against some mountain farmers.
Between Vietnam and Afghanistan, you would think that not underestimating the little guy would have been a big lesson from the 20th century. Doesn't seem to have stuck yet though..