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I think a lot depends on... by Metatone (2.00 / 0) #12 Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 02:51:01 PM EST

whether your formative moments were in the early eighties or late eighties. For me, it was the early eighties and things didn't look so rosy. Of course, living in North Soviet UKia, 84-85 was the miner's strike, which was the beginning of large economic decline and a mass migration out of the area.

Being less parochial for a moment, Gorbachev's uskoreniye/glasnost/perestroika only began in 85 as I recall. Certainly here the early eighties was dominated by the feeling that "someone might press the wrong button by mistake" followed by the feeling that "now Reagan has Star Wars to protect his ass he might push the button on purpose and we'll get the return fire."

being born in '78 by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #15 Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 05:54:23 PM EST

I never once felt an ounce of fear regarding USSR v US nuclear war. It just seemed to stupid, with MAD and all, to believe anybody would be willing to do it. I fear "rogue nations" moreso (in particular N. Korea, rather than Iran).

OTOH I work with a guy (older) that admitted the other day that he just plain hates Russians, still. I can't even fathom that.

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: you're just a few years too young. by aphrael (2.00 / 0) #22 Sat Aug 18, 2007 at 02:40:50 PM EST

i was born in 73, and i remember that fear.
all too well.
it's one of the reasons i think the terrorism fears today are overblown. dude, when i was a kid, i worried about the entire world being obliterated in an instant. what are a few terrorists going to do to compare?

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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