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kleinbl00  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIH: May 1, 1960- A U2 Spyplane is shot down over the USSR.

The US take on the Cuban Missile Crisis is... propagandist, to be sure. A lot of that is because the whole Jupiter missile battery thing was secret, and part of Kennedy's agreement was that not even Khruschev would talk about it. Kinda how we did remove all of our troops from Saudi Arabia after 9/11, the one thing Osama bin Laden had been whingeing about since 1991. I'd be curious how they teach it in Russia. ThatFanficGuy?

Everyone's inner 13-year-old has a thing for the B-70. It's a brilliant vision of the ascendancy of the Strategic Air Command, a suit of shining armor to knight into the stratosphere. Unfortunately, like most bombastic visions of go-fast, it was out of sync with the realities of warfare from shortly before its first flight. That said, our bucketlists have commonalities. ;-)





user-inactivated  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'd be curious how they teach it in Russia.

Mostly no. We do get to learn about the Caribbean Crisis concisely, as well as the way the evil West was creeping over "our prominent ally", and we do get to hear about Khruschev banging his shoe at some assembly, but I never heard of the U2, within or without the context of it being the reason of said banging. All I got to learn about it was that Khruschev was promising to show the West "кузькину мать" (intranslatable; means "to act so as to make the recepient party sorry for the actions they've committed") and that a lot of the ordinary citizens of the USSR were disappointed in him as a leader of the country.

You'll surprised just how many common traits the two countries have. From what I figure, the only difference between the two, culturally, is that the US people are outspoken while the Soviet/Russian people prefer to keep quiet, and everything that stems from it.