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12-24-2014, 05:32 AM
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 Join Date: Dec 2014
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http://libcom.org/history/articles/c...?quicktabs_1=0 (excerpt) ------------------------------------------------- On the Soviet side, the events of the Cold War were repeated interventions in Eastern Europe: tanks in East Berlin (1953) and Budapest (1956) and Prague (196  . These interventions took place along the route that was used to attack and virtually destroy Russia three times in this century alone. The invasion of Afghanistan is the one example of an intervention outside that route, though also on the Soviet border. On the US side, intervention was worldwide, reflecting the status attained by the US as the first truly global power in history. On the domestic front, the Cold War helped the Soviet Union entrench its military-bureaucratic ruling class in power, and it gave the US a way to compel its population to subsidise high-tech industry. It isn't easy to sell all that to the domestic populations. The technique used was the old stand-by-fear of a great enemy. The Cold War provided that too. No matter how outlandish the idea that the Soviet Union and its tentacles were strangling the West, the "Evil Empire" was in fact evil, was an empire and was brutal. Each superpower controlled its primary enemy - its own population - by terrifying it with the (quite real) crimes of the other. In crucial respects, then, the Cold War was a kind of tacit arrangement between the Soviet Union and the United States under which the US conducted its wars against the Third World and controlled its allies in Europe, while the Soviet rulers kept an iron grip on their own internal empire and their satellites in Eastern Europe - each side using the other to justify repression and violence in its own domains. The Cold War even had a cultural component, with rival interventions in the art world. ------------------------------------------------------ Don't take anything that's mainstream seriously. Read revisionist history and the essays of anti-establishment pundits. http://www.chomsky.info/ http://petras.lahaine.org/ http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pa...l_Parenti.html http://well-temperedforum.groupee.ne...1101037356/p/1 Here's a good book. http://www.amazon.es/Lies-My-Teacher.../dp/0743296281 It's on-line. Copy and paste this link. I don't know why it didn't come out a hotlink. file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/HOLA/Mis%20documentos/Downloads/Lies%20My%20Teacher%20Told%20Me.pdf edit next day ------------------------------------- Ralph Nader is an important anti-establishment pundit. https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ry=ralph+nader The TV channels refuse to sell him air time because they don't want the people to hear his words. Last edited by Drifty; 12-25-2014 at 10:17 AM. |
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