Cold War General

>>559174
lel

Countless countries were thrown into pointless civil wars and suffered under insular regimes for decades, people today still believe giving up everything to a "people's republic" is the way to go.

I'd say communism was a pretty good meme.

>>559174
>1990
>After specifically the most stagnant decade in the communist economic sphere
>Right after the USSR's collapse
b8, m8?

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>>559458
>It's the West's fault that we held half a continent as a giant open-air prison for half a century!

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>>559458

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>>559467
>NATO formed in 1949
>Warsaw Pact formed 6 years later as a response

>Churchill makes a speech introducing the idea of an "iron curtain" in 1946 but is not reelected, it's later revealed he wanted to outright invade russia.
>Huge incentive for businesses to want communist governments to fall so they can expand into vast new markets, businesses have always had a lot of influence in the politics of many large capitalist states including the u.s.

>>559537
>NATO formed in 1949
What was going in in Central/Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1949, lad?

>>559537
I don't see the post the guy is replying to, but saying the west had strategic and economic interests in eastern Europe is pretty fucking trivial imho.

>>559547
So you're saying it wasn't a factor?
Not just eastern europe, russia and parts of asia too.

>>559452
>don't say the communists had a shit economy, they just had a shit economy!

>>559622
What?

>>559452

are you implying things were better the years before?

>>559640
Yes.

>>559649

got any stats to share?

>>559636
You honestly implied that commies in the 1980s had such a shit economy that it somehow set them 50 years back, if that's not a proof of communist inferiority then I don't have a clue what is.

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>>559640
Obviously they weren't and he's lying like a motherfucker.

Blue - Austria
Red - Czechoslovakia

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>the USSR built this much fucking military equipment
Was it autism, /his/?

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>>559547
Geopolitics such as Mackinder warned that Russian control of the "Heartland" would make them unbeatable
He was right to a point

>>559711
>Fishbed put under strategic aircraft
>nearly every aircraft type in VVS inventory listed for PACT
>NATO aircraft leaves out Tornado, F-16

>>559730
Right up to the point he failed to predict the development of nuclear weapons and ICBMs

>>559730
Mahan was much more on the ball. Global trade is oceanic, and the US Navy is the dominant force on the seven seas.