re: Maybe the USSR never had intentions to conquer territory.
I was a teenager in the 80’s and I remember Hollywood pushing the fear. How many post nuclear war movies were there? Then there were shows like “The Day After.â€
In High Scholl we had to read Alas, Babylon.
There was a scene in Terminator II where L.A. is being nuked that scared the heck out of me.
The threat we felt was real. I remember thinking not if we were going to get Nuked by the USSR, but when.
Perhaps these fears were justified. Stalin did say he would bury us. And then we saw Communism spreading across the globe over the decades.
Maybe the question should be, did our efforts to stop Communism help stop it, or was it doomed from the start?