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USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39

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In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was just cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was by no means cool, man. After World War II, there were basically two big geopolitical powers left to divide up the world. And divide they did. The United States and the Soviet Union divvied up Europe in the aftermath of the war, and then proceeded to spend the next 45 years fighting over the rest of the world. It was the great ideological struggle, with the US on the side of capitalism and profit, and the USSR pushing Communism, so-called. While both sides presented themselves as the good guy in this situation, the COLD reality is that there are no good guys. Both parties to the Cold War engaged in forcible regime changes, built up vast nuclear arsenals, and basically got up to dirty tricks. If you had to pick a bad guy though, we would point out that the USSR had no intention of bringing Laika the Cosmonaut Dog home alive. That poor dog never had a shot. Sorry to disappoint, but the economist t-shirts are not a real product. Thanks to Raoul Meyer for the YUGOGAL photo
Date: 2022-04-04

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Comments and reviews: 6

Julie
You're really going to talk about the fall of the iron curtain without mentioning Pope John Paul II?
He was the one who encouraged the people of Eastern Europe to hold on to their identities as nations and persons. It was his encouragement that led to uprisings that finally broke through to the Soviets that they didn't have such an iron hold over the people. And so the -people's government- obviously not supported by the people started to crack.
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Keegan
Thirty Nine Episodes! It took 39 episodes to mention Cuba a single time. Not that Cuba is a major mover and shaker of the world but it really deserves more time allocated than 2 sentences.
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Dipsy
3: 30
My brother: that's mean, what if he sees this video?
Me: I'm pretty sure he won't
My brother: Why not? Doesn't he have technology?
Me: No, he doesn't have a pulse.
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Brandon
Well this is 2020 and I-m watching this because my teacher is making me watch this because of corona virus, I-m sick of this sickness stuff ugh! So if your seeing this in 2070 hello
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Sharcc
The future is absolutely not assured.
Since I'm writing this whilst in lockdown due to a mass global pandemic that has killed almost 300, 000 people as of now.
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WizDom!
What policies did Mikhail Gorbachev introduce? i can't find the answer to that question on my assignment, can somebody give me a watermark?
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