The Cold War?....... It Sucked

[newthinking]

For those of you who may not be old enough to "fondly" remember the cold war, especially during the Reagan Era..
Well... It really sucked.

That is all....

[JaneyVee]

1. I was born in 1981 during the Reagan era, it did suck.

[Warpy]

2. "Duck and Cover" might look quaint and even funny now

but when you were a little kid cowering under your desk as people told you that your whole would could vanish in a blast of flame and blinding light, it was far from funny. I think most of us have a certain amount of PTSD from those days, which is why Reagan's gunslinger foreign policy sucked so much to us. We knew the old fool couldn't tell the difference between real life and all the bad movies he was in, so the fear he'd push the button to relive some movie scene was a real worry.

[newthinking]

4. The world was minutes from being blown up multiple times

The U.S.S.R. and U.S. Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought
A series of war games held in 1983 triggered "the moment of maximum danger of the late Cold War."

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/the-ussr-and-us-came-closer-to-nuclear-war-than-we-thought/276290/

[Warpy]

6. The Cuban Missile crisis was worse, IMO

I was in school and the halls were dead silent between classes.

I didn't hear silence like that again until 9/11.

I hope I don't live long to hear that kind of silence for a third time.

[TexasProgresive]

8. I grew up in New Orleans, South Central Texas and coastal Texas in the 50s and 60s

I don't know if I blacked it out but i don't recall ever doing a "duck and cover" or even being instructed it such a maneuver. We did fire drills and seemed to be more concerned about hurricanes than atomic death raining from the skies.

That said, the cold war sucked as my father was often away on super secret army missions. Once he disappeared for 2 years. And then there were the hot spots like Korea and Indochina. I firmly believe that Putin is intent on bringing back the glory of the former Soviet Union with the attended cold war. Time will tell.

[Terra Alta]

3. I was born in 1981 as well

and have vague memories of the Cold War. It was not a happy time. I was only 8 years old when the Berlin Wall came down, but even at that young age I knew big changes were happening in the world, and for the better.

[JaneyVee]

7. Same here, vague memories of the Cold War and

Seeing images of the Berlin Wall was one of my first memories of geopolitics. Everyone did seem to be in a Cold War mentality. I'm half Russian and we occasionally spoke Russian and we would get sneered at if we were outside of our Brooklyn neighborhood. Alas, it was a time when Rocky Balboa was kicking Ivan Drago's ass and Matthew Broderick was launching global thermo nuclear war. Nothing brings back childhood memories like pro-American / Anti-Soviet Hollywood 80's movies.

[darkangel218]

5. Yes it did.

I hate to see it creeping in again.



I wish more would see how invaluable peace is.

[Exposethefrauds]

9. Lots of dead friend’s too during the So-Called Cold War

But heck if it does not make the news or on the internet it did not really happen right?

[Jesus Malverde]

10. Still waiting for my peace dividend...nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. If Russia should win