• star_wraith [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Hits even harder when your learn the Soviets did everything they could to try and avoid nuclear war while the US was the one who kept threatening it.

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I remember some :brainworms: infested history teacher I had saying that the Soviets were pro nuclear war and told their citizens that the power of communism would protect them or some bs, just lies all the way down.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        They offered to provably get rid of every single nuclear weapon they had if the US would do the same. The response from Reagan, IIRC, was that if the Soviet Union first got rid of theirs the US would consider getting rid of ours, too.

        :amerikkka:

        • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          the soviets even offered conventional disarmament. too good for this fucking world :ussr-cry:

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The seed that planted the idea was some shit tv movie. If someone had made reagan watch "Threads" I think it would have upped the overall chance by a decent percentage.

            Cw: don't watch Threads unless you want to be haunted for a month or two. That ending. Hoo boy.

            • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah Threads is brutal, watched it as a kid and it definitely fucked me up but gave me good takes on nuclear war, I feel :doomjak:

              • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Ouch. I watched it when I was 35. I can't imagine watching it as a kid.

                • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yeah in retrospect I was maybe a little young to be watching it (and I say this as someone who watched, like, Robocop as a kid and was fine) lmao

                  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    Lmao yeah me too. Shit like Aliens and Terminator. Parts of Robocop. They all had toys, too.