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Topic: The more I read about the Soviet Union the more I realize it excelled at two things.
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 hours ago#138,534
Misinformation and posturing. High-tech subs that unceremoniously sunk. Engineering feats that destroyed the Aral Sea. Grandiose war plans with insufficient logistics. Massive production statistics that were made up. Huge fleets of rusted and gutted tanks in East Germany with the fronts and tops painted because that’s what U.S. surveillance could see. They played an amazing shell game until they couldn’t. I have so many breathless Western books and studies that stared down an unbeatable Leviathan that was rotten to the core.
They were excellent at stirring up dissent and backing individuals and groups in the West that often didn’t realize they have Soviet backing, everything from academics to the coffee shops where anti-Vietnam War protesters congregated.