The 1945-1991 Cold War

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The "three worlds" of the Cold War era, as of the period between April 1975 and August 1975. Neutral and non-aligned countries shown in green.

Communist state alignments in 1980: pro-Soviet (red); pro-Chinese (yellow); non-aligned hardliner communist North Korea (dark red); and non-aligned, non-aligned Soviet sympathetic Finland (lilac); and moderate communist Yugoslavia (pink); Somalia had been pro-Soviet until 1977; and Cambodia (Kampuchea) had been pro-China until 1979.

A Soviet, now Russian MiG-31 fighter.

A British Bloodhound SAM.

The term

The term "cold" used in "Cold War" was chosen because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences.

Historical background

The Cold War was a term used to describe the tensions between the USA and the USSR after the horrors of World War 2. The Origins of the Cold War were rooted in many issues of an complex and politically threatening origin. Britain, France, the United States, Canada envisioned NATO in 1947 as both a way of seeing of Soviet aggression in Europe and stopping Germany from becoming political and militarily dangerous again. The USSR formed the Warsaw Pact in May 1955 to counter NATO.

The era

• The U.N.'s flag.
• This is a locator map of the former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI).
• Palau District Police greet the UN Visiting Mission to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1973).
• Arrival of UN Visiting Mission in Majuro, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1978). The sign reads "Please release us from the bondage of your trusteeship agreement."
• The United Nations Security Council Chamber in New York, also known as the Norwegian Room.
• UN General Assembly's hall.
• A multinational UN battalion at the 2008 Bastille Day military parade. Date: 2008. Attribution: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

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• Flag of the GDR.
• The alternate flag of W. Germany.
• Bosnian separatist flag and national the flag from 1992 to 1998.
• Flag od the EU.
• The USSR's Flag.
• The flag of the Peoples' Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville).
• The flag of Rhodesia.
• U.N.I.T.A.'s flag.
• Flag of Angola.
• Flag of Mozambique.
• Flag of the M.P.L.A.
• The official communist Polish flag.
• The official flag of W. Germany.
• The flag of Laos.
• S. Vietnamese flag.
• The flag of the Peoples' Republic of Congo (Brazzaville).
• The Czechoslovakian and now Czech Republic flag.

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Overview

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). A Neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement; it sought good relations with both sides. The Cold War started in 1944 or 1945 depending on how one judges the situation and the end has been disputed; either 1990 or 1991.

After the great clash of Communism with Nazism that was part of WW2, that saw Germany, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, SS Gallitzin an Finland fighting together against the USSR on the eastern front, Nazi Germany and it's allies lost to the USSR on the eastern front. Both Germany and the USSR were traumatized for many years a afterwards and the USSR became paranoid about being invaded, especially in Europe. The USA feared a similar fate from Asia after Japan's bombing of Pear Harbour. Capitalist America was cocky after the war due to suffering relatively few losses, unlike the ruined Germany and the both ruined and twice nuked Japanese. Britain, Italy, China and France were broken and in sharp decline. The USA and USSR soon began to hate and rival each other. The conflict reached it's regional high points during the Berlin Blockade\Berlin airlift (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), and the Able Archer 83 NATO exercises in November 1983.

Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism) was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed.

The period 1945-1991 and more specifically the interactions, directly or through proxies, between 'the West' and 'the Communist states.'

Background

The mess World War 2 left behind it in 1945.

The Cold War was the time of Modern History spanning from the Yalta Conference on February 4, 1945, to December 31, 1991 at the formal end the Soviet Union. The Cold war was not a formal war, but a series of Proxy Wars and build-up of nuclear and and non-nuclear weapons, predominantly between the Warsaw Pact and other Communist countries and the NATO and American forces.

The East and West completed mostly over sport, science, the arts, front line military, space and atomic arms.

The USSR was a Marxist–Leninist state ruled by its Communist Party and secret police, who in turn were ruled by a dictator (Stalin) or a small committee ("Politburo"). The Party controlled the press, the military, the economy and all organizations. It also controlled the other states in the Eastern bloc, and funded Communist parties around the world, sometimes in competition with Communist China, particularly following the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s. In opposition stood the West, dominantly democratic and capitalist with a free press and independent organizations. A small neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement; it sought good relations with both sides. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat, but they were heavily armed in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that discouraged an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Aside from the development of the two sides' nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, massive propaganda campaigns and espionage, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.

The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR consolidated its control over the states of the Eastern Bloc, while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe (for example, supporting the anti-communist side in the Greek Civil War) and creating the NATO alliance. The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War. With the victory of the communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded. The USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America, and the decolonizing states of Africa and Asia. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets. The expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, a new phase began that saw the Sino-Soviet split complicate relations within the communist sphere, while US allies, particularly France, demonstrated greater independence of action. The USSR crushed the 1968 Prague Spring liberalization program in Czechoslovakia, and the Vietnam War (1955–75) ended with a defeat of the US-backed Republic of South Vietnam, prompting further adjustments.

Post World War 2

The Allies disagreed about how the European map should look, and how borders would be drawn, following the war. Each side held dissimilar ideas regarding the establishment and maintenance of post-war security. The Western Allies were divided in their vision of the new post-war world.

At the Potsdam Conference, which started in late July after Germany's surrender, serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. One week after the end of the Potsdam Conference, the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Start of The Warsaw Pact

During the opening stages of World War II, the Soviet Union laid the foundation for the Eastern Bloc by invading and then annexing several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics, by agreement with Nazi Germany in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

As part of consolidating Stalin's control over the Eastern Bloc, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), led by Lavrentiy Beriya, supervised the establishment of Soviet-style secret police systems in the Bloc that were supposed to crush anti-communist resistance

Beginning

In September 1947, the Soviets created Cominform, the purpose of which was to enforce orthodoxy within the international communist movement and tighten political control over Soviet satellites through coordination of communist parties in the Eastern Bloc. The US government's response to this announcement was the adoption of containment, the goal of which was to stop the spread of communism. Britain, France, the United States, Canada envisioned NATO in 1947 as both a way of seeing of Soviet aggression in Europe and stopping Germany from becoming political and militarily dangerous again.

In June 1947, in accordance with the Truman Doctrine, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan, a pledge of economic assistance for all European countries willing to participate, including the Soviet Union. In early 1948, following reports of strengthening "reactionary elements", Soviet operatives executed a coup d'état in Czechoslovakia, the only Eastern Bloc state that the Soviets had permitted to retain democratic structures.

Britain, France, the United States, Canada envisioned NATO in 1947 as both a way of seeing of Soviet aggression in Europe and stopping Germany from becoming political and militarily dangerous again. Britain, France, the United States, Canada and other eight western European countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949, establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The USSR formed the Warsaw Pact in May 1955 to counter NATO.

In 1949, Mao Zedong's Peoples' Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China, and the Soviet Union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed People's Republic of China.

America was greedy and wanted more military and economic power over Western Europe and Central America, then eventually the whole world. The USSR was paranoid and obsessed with political and military power over Eastern Europe and East Asia, then eventually the whole world. America regarded South East Asians and Amerindians as sub-human until the 1960s and wanted to wipe them out as part of any future war, while the Soviets were obsessed the W. Germans were unrepentant Nazis until the 1970s and wanted to wipe them out as part of any future war. The Arabs, East Asians, Latin Americans, South East Asians and the Western Europe an nations were scared of the whole thing turning in to a new global war, possibly with nukes. While the mentally ill Joseph Stalin would have cause a conflict anyhow, America's own plans for would domination would would have alienated these that came afterwards.

The Early Cold War.

In 1953, changes in political leadership on both sides shifted the dynamic of the Cold War. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet leader following the deposition and execution of Lavrentiy Beria and the pushing aside of rivals Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov. the 1950–1953 Korean War was a major conflict in the Cold War and formalised the East-West split.

During November 1958, Khrushchev made an unsuccessful attempt to turn all of Berlin into an independent, demilitarized "free city", giving the United States, Great Britain, and France a six-month ultimatum to withdraw their troops from the sectors they still occupied in West Berlin, or he would transfer control of Western access rights to the East Germans. Khrushchev earlier explained to Mao Zedong that "Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin."

The period after 1956 was marked by serious setbacks for the Soviet Union, most notably the breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, beginning the Sino-Soviet split.

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in the early 1960s and the Vietnam War scarred the decade.

Things continued to deteriorate as the Vietnam War worsened.

Late Cold War

Détente and Glasnost

By the 1970s, both sides had become interested in accommodations to create a more stable and predictable international system, inaugurating a period of détente that saw Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People's Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union. Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979. The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the "Able Archer" NATO military exercises (1983). The United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika ("reorganization", 1987) and glasnost ("openness", c. 1985) and ended Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Mikhail Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. The result in 1989 was a wave of revolutions that peacefully (with the exception of the Romanian Revolution) overthrew all of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe.

The end

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August 1991. This in turn led to the formal dissolution of the USSR in December 1991 and the collapse of communist regimes in other countries such as Mongolia, Cambodia and South Yemen. The United States remained as the world's only superpower, but Russia wished to regain superpower status and China was slowly progressing to wards becoming one.

Aftermath

The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy. It is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media featuring themes of espionage (e.g. the internationally successful James Bond movie franchise) and the threat of nuclear warfare. While the Soviets looked like the worse offender since there actions were more blatant and conquest centric, but the Americans were ultimately the worse and cowardly hide behind puppets like General Augusto Pinochet and sick experiments like Project MKUltra.

American and Soviet bad faith in several crises

1. Exercise Zapad-81 was in violation of the then current political norms and involved a large Soviet victory parade meant to rub NATO and Polish nosed in the shit afterwards.
2. The Korean Air Flight 007 incident in 1983 involved possible and known acts of bad faith at several levels and moments of time.

American acts of bad faith

America condoned the Nazis and helped them despite of French warning, but turned on them once Nazi Germany went to war.

Winston Churchill warned the US that Joseph Stalin was out conquer most of Europe. The USA ignored this until the Berlin airlift was needed and then blamed the USSR for all America's woes up until the détente of the 1970s.

The USA has always hated the PRC except in the brief détente of the 1970s. OK, no one like the Tienaman Squair massacre, but things change in the 1990's over the most of the world, but the USA got jealous as China had become of a economic near superpower spewing stuffed toys, busses and (sadly often ripped of) video games. China went psycho in the late 2010s and economic enslave several 3rd world nations and got obsessed with hating both the USA and Taiwan, which the USA wanted as a precursor to war.

Putin was welcomed as a replacement for Yelstin. Putin was OK at first, but attacked Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. No one did much and the USA cautiously condoned it. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The would mostly condemned it and America reluctantly joined in to keep it's allies quiet. They gave Ukraine minimal aid (as a % of national reserves and industrial output) and signalled there preference for a Putin victory, whilst simultaneously blaming the EU for stating it all and not making enough sacrifices for it.

Americans expected there allies to die in heaps for them:

1. Korea- The UK, Turkey, Australia, et al.
2. Vietnam- Australia and the UK (some how Harold Wilson got us out of it).

They never helped there allies.

1. UK and France in Suez.
2. The UK in the Malay Emergency.
3. The UK in the Aden Crisis.
4. The UK in the Falkland's War (some how Ronald Regan got us some satellite imagery, a load of high power radios and a satellite link).

Major Cold War players democracy or lack there of. A flawed democracy has some cheating, undue influence and money have damaged the electoral process. A ruined democracy is run by vested interests (clergy, oligarchs, army, drug lords) and always end up with politicians that are bought off and\or intimidated by those vested interests in office. A fake\sham democracies are free from any meaningful electorate input. Stuffed ballots, fake results, vested interests, money and voter intimidation have totally hijacked and destroyed the electoral process. A dictator is answerable to a board of advisor or a wider cabal of people, while a tyrant answers to no one or only to a very small group like there immediate family and\or a trusted lieutenant.

A Titan II missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

A Russian Air Force MiG-29SMT.

The UN General Assembly's hall.

Timeline

1940s

• 1944 End of World War Two
• 1945 Yalta Conference
• 1945 Potsdam Conference
• 1946:

1. February - The Long Telegram
2. March - Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain Speech '

• 1947: 

1. March - Truman Doctrine
2. June - Marshall Plan

1950s

• 1950 Treaty Of Friendship
• 1950 NATO
• 1951-1953 Korean War
• 1953-1961 President Eisenhower
• 1954 Domino Theory
• 1955 -1958 Quemoy/Matsu
• 1956 Poland
• 1956  Khruschev's Secret Speech
• 1956 Hungarian Uprising
• 1959-1961  Mao's Great Leap Forward
• 1959 Cuban Revolution

1960s

• 1960 Budapest Meeting
• 1962 Sino-Indian War & Indo-China
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1968 Prague Spring
• 1969 Ussuri River Conflict

1970s

• 1972 Nixon's Visit to China. General Augusto Pinochet stages a coup in Chile and becomes it's dictator.
• Ping Pong Diplomacy
• Angolan independence.

1980s

• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• Soviet 1991 August Coup

1990s

The USSR and Yugoslavia collapse in 1991.

Political alignment maps

The Cold War sides in 1953.

The Cold War sides in 1959.

The Cold War sides in 1970.

The Cold War sides in 1980 in our world.

GDP and life expectancy maps

2015.

2004-2005.

2000.

1990-1995.

1985.

1985.

1970-1975.

1965.

1960.

1960.

1950-1955.

1946.

• Note: Modern figures some times quote retrospectively the USSR's republics' statistics as if they were independent nations, which they were not, but because the USSR was so dominated by Russia that it's stats can be use in place of the USSR's. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively Yemen, Vietnam and Germany as if they a united and not divided in two by Cold War Geopolitics. N. Yemen, S. Vietnam and W. Germany had about 5-10 more years lifespan than S. Yemen, N. Vietnam and E. Germany.

Nominal GDP per head for 1950.

Nominal GDP per head for 1960.

Nominal GDP per head for 1965.

Nominal GDP per head for 1970.

Nominal GDP per head for 1975.

Nominal GDP per head for 1980.

Nominal GDP per head for 1985.

Nominal GDP per head for 1990.

Nominal GDP per head for 2000.

Nominal GDP per head for 2015.

Nominal GDP per head for 2021.

• Note: GDP per head/per capita statistics start at various times, with some like USSR and Saudi Arabia starting in 1970. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively the USSR's republics' statistics as if they were independent nations, which they were not, but because the USSR was so dominated by Russia that it's stats per capita can be use in place of the USSR's. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively Yemen, Vietnam and Germany as if they a united and not divided in two by Cold War Geopolitics. N. Yemen, S. Vietnam and W. Germany had about 33% more economic production than S. Yemen, N. Vietnam and E. Germany. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively Ethiopia's and Eritrea's republics' statistics as if they were independent nations, which they were not, but because the old Ethiopia was so dominated by modern Ethiopia that it's stats per capita can be use in place of the old Ethiopia's. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively for Czechia, Slovakia and the former Yugoslavia as if they independent nations, which they were not, but the united figures were roughly between those of Slovakia and Czechia for Czechoslovakia and between to the of Serbia and Croatia for Yugoslavia. Modern figures some times quote retrospectively for N. Sudan and S. Sudan as if they were independent nations, which they were not, but Sudan was so dominated by N. Sudan that it's stats per capita can be use in place of Sudan's. Australia, Japan, UK, PRC, Taiwan, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Brazil, Argentina, India, Venezuela, Libya, Algeria, Turkey, India, the UAE, FRG and GDR were accused of economic lying to the UN at times. The USSR, USA, communist Poland, DPRK, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Canada, S. Africa, post-Brexit UK and Russia have all been accused of compulsive economic lying to the UN and there statistics are probably a load of bull-shit anyhow!

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A AMX-13-A light tank.

The official flag of W. Germany.

Flag od the EU.

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Flag of the Bavaria Lenda.

The flag of Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville).

The Thai flag.

Chad's flag.

Flag of Angola.

Flag of Mozambique.

The offical Canadian flag.

The unofficial flag of Canada.

The offical flag of Peru.

The unoffical flag of Peru.

The offical Icelandic flag.

The alternate Icelandic flag.

the Swedish flag.

The Thai flag.

The Danish Flag.

French flag.

American flag.

The official Polish flag.

A variant Polish flag.

The unofficial Morning Star flag, used by supporters of West Papuan independence Bahasa Indonesia: Indonesia, Bendera Papua Barat.

Dutch New Guinea was here.

The regions of Denmark as of 2015.

HMS Somerset at Cape Trafalgar in June of 2005.

A picture of the streets of Havana.

A French Pluton missile.

Romanian TR-85 M1 tanks 'attack' during the exercise Combined Resolve II.

A B-52H from Barksdale AFB flying over the desert.

2 F-100Ds of the 79th Fighter Squadron, based at Woodbridge, but part of the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, RAF Wethersfield Essex.

A Polish Polonez MR'78 made Police car.

Cowpeas.

The flag of the Peoples' Republic of Congo (Brazzaville).

The Czechoslovakian and now Czech Republic flag.

A Tu-95MS Bear bomber.

3 Leopard 2A5 tanks.

Ham the "Astrochimp".

The Mariner 10 satellite.

The regions of Denmark as of 2015.

ADC interceptors (Convair F-106A Delta Dart) near Mount Rushmore (lower right background).

Left front view of a Spanish navy AV-8S Matador aircraft in 1 May 1977.

19-03-2012-Parade-rehearsal_with_Topol-M missile launcher and missile.

A U.S. Marine F-4B Phantom II of fighter-attack squadron VMFA-314, the Black Knights, flying over South Vietnam, returns to Chu Lai airbase, South Vietnam, in September 1968.]]

8 of 28 A U.S. Navy F-4B from VF-111 dropping bombs over Vietnam, 1971. A U.S. Navy F-4B from VF-111 dropping bombs over Vietnam, 1971. A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom II of Fighter Squadron VF-111 Sundowners drops 227 kg Mk 82 bombs over Vietnam during 1971. VF-111 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) for a deployment to Vietnam from 12 November 1971 to 17 July 1972.

U.S. Marines fire a Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided missile on the firing range during an exercise at Fort Pickett, Va., on March 30, 1998. The Marines are attached to Bravo Company, Weapons Platoon, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C. U.S. Marines fire a Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided missile on the firing range during an exercise.

The Irish Navy ship, Coastal patrol vessel LE Ciara (P42), at Haulbowline on 29 March 2008.

A port quarter view of the Italian frigate ZEFFIRO (F 577) underway (sailing) in 1988.

A Soviet R-12 nuclear ballistic missile in Moscow.

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223. Operation Chrome Dome

Communist world! (1922-1991)
The Warsaw Pact and the military	Warsaw Pact - People's Republic of Albania (left) - German Democratic Republic- Czech Socialist Republic- Warsaw Pact Rail - USSR -People's Republic of Poland - Hungarian People's Republic - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - People's Republic of Bulgaria - Polish People's Republic - Romanian Popular Republic - Romanian People's Republic - Soviet 5.45x39mm - Soviet Southern Group of Forces -Seven days to the River Rhine (1979) - Jüterbog Airfield -Topoľčany Army Barracks and bunker system - Brezhnev Doctrine - Soviet war in Afghanistan - Vladivostok Navel base - Murmansk Navel base - Archangelsk Navel base - Kaliningrad Navel base - Sevastopol Navel base - Kazan Higher Tank Command School and related tank factory - Burevestnik Airport - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (de facto, but not de jure) - AK-47\Kalashnikov assault rifle - Red Army - Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520) - KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs) - Eastern bloc - Tupolev Tu-160- 9M14 Malyutka - RPG-7 - R-7 ICBM - Tupolev Tu-95 - M73 Spetsnaz Boot - M73 Romanian helmet
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (ComEcom) nations	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance - SovRoms - Mongolian People's Republic - Cuba - Vietnam - North Vietnam - German Democratic Republic- Czech Socialist Republic - USSR - Mongolian People's Republic - People's Republic of Poland - Hungarian People's Republic - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - People's Republic of Bulgaria - Polish People's Republic - People's Republic of Albania (left) - ‎Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (never fully joined) - Romanian Popular Republic -Romanian People's Republic - North Korea (de facto, but not [de jure to avoid worrying the PRC) - Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (wanted to join, but never got round to doing so) - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (de facto, but not de jure) - Eastern bloc
Other Soviet allies.	People's Republic of the Congo - People's Republic of Benin – Republic of Seychelles – Democratic Republic of Madagascar - Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia - People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia - People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) - Junta of National Reconstruction (Nicaragua) - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria - Jamaica - Grenada
The ones with nukes	USSR - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis - Tupolev Tu-160 - R-7 ICBM - Tupolev Tu-95 - People's Republic of China
The inter-communist splits	Sino-Soviet Split - USSR -Tankie Communists - Zhou Enlai - Nikita Khrushchev - Mao Zedong - Pol Pot - People's Republic of China - Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) - People's Republic of Albania - The inter-communist splits
The end of it	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Fall of the Berlin wall - Soviet "Era of Stagnation" - Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Singing Revolution - Baltic Republics of the Soviet Union- The political dissolution of the Soviet Union and why it broke up afterwards - Soviet war in Afghanistan - Chernobyl disaster -Glasnost - Perestroika
Economics	Sakhalin Island - Life under communism - Food cards- Collective farms- Yugoslavian Agricoles - Political Committee of the Communist Party of China - Soviet political organs - Soviet Social Apparatus - The purveyors of crappy Cold War era Easter Block cars - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk - Virgin Lands campaign - Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs) - The Agrokomerc Affair - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc - Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520) - KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory- Eastern bloc - Gorki Auto Plant - GAZ Group Holding - ZiL
Politics and Geo-politics	Sakhalin Island - Stalin Monument (Budapest)‎‎ - Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Khrushchev Thaw- Tito–Stalin Split‎-‎‎ Life under communism - Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Cold War - Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - Soviet "Era of Stagnation" - Soviet 'oligophrenics' and 'oligophrenia' - Soviet political organs - Soviet Social Apparatus - Russian and Soviet Leaders between 1917 and 2018 - Stalin's purges and ethnic cleansing- Closed Soviet locations - Gulags - Berlin Wall - Détente - Sino-Soviet Split - Brezhnev Doctrine - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation -Glasnost - Perestroika - Kuril Islands - Rybachy Peninsula - Kaliningrad Oblast - Eastern bloc - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union - 1952 Egyptian revolution -Sandinistas - Cuban Revolution - Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948
Technology and outer space	Sputnik 1 - Soviet Space Program - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk - Virgin Lands campaign - Tatra trams#T3 and T3R.P trams - M62 locomotive - TEP80 locomotive -Soviet MSI nMOS chip - Soviet Ice Breaker Lenin - Chernobyl disaster - AK-47\Kalashnikov assault rifle -Soviet Opytnoye Konstruktorskoye Buros (OKBs)- The Space Race - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Yuri Gagarin - Vostok rocket-Soyuz rocket - Baikonur Cosmodrome - Plesetsk Cosmodrome - Zenit 2 - Tupolev Tu-160 - R-7 ICBM - Phobos 1
People	Stalin Monument (Budapest)‎‎ - Vladimir Lenin - Leonid Brezhnev - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Yuri Gagarin - Nikita Khrushchev - Joseph Stalin - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation - Mikhail Gorbachev - Ho Chi Minh - Fidel Castro - Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej - Mohammad Najibullah - Maurice Bishop - Zhou Enlai - Salvador Allende - Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - Gamal Abdel Nasser - Pol Pot - Michael Manley - Maurice Bishop - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Important places	Sakhalin island - Moscow - Nakhodka Port - Gorki Auto Plant - Vladivostok Navel base - Murmansk Navel base - Arkangelsk Navel base - Kalinningrad Navel base - Sevastopol Navel base - Kazan Higher Tank Command School and related tank factory -Burevestnik Airport- Jüterbog Airfield - Topoľčany Army Barracks and bunker system - Kuril Islands - Berlin Wall - Mirny Diamond Mine - Magnitogorsk - Rybachy Peninsula - St. Petersburg‎ - Closed Soviet locations - Kaliningrad Oblast - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc -KhPZ Factory No. 183 in Kharkiv/Malyshev Factory - Wuxi (diode) Factory 742 - Jiangnan Radio Factory - Agrokomerc - Baikonur Cosmodrome - Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Systems of state repression	What is a police state? - Státní bezpečnost/Štátna bezpečnosť (StB/ŠtB) - Committee for State Security (KGB) - Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye (GRU) - Stasi - Securitate -Gulag - Political disappearances - Berlin Wall - A Bulgarian umbrella assassination – Komitet za dǎržavna sigurnost (CSS) - Censorship East Germany - Communist Party of the Soviet Union - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The political heretics who were not really true communists	People's Republic of Albania (criminal dictatorship) - Mao Zedong (mad) - Enver Hoxha (a mafia don) - Pol Pot (evil) - Nicolae Ceauşescu (evil) - Democratic Kampuchea (evil) - Khmer Rouge (evil) - The PRC (evil then state capitalist) - Communist Party of Kampuchea (evil) - The Shining Path (evil) - North Korea (despotism)- Red Brigades (in Italy) (criminal syndicate) - Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (criminal syndicate) - Daniel Ortega (evil) - Kim Il-Sung (despot) - People's Republic of China (evil then state capitalist) - Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (evil) - People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (evil) - Somali Democratic Republic (Black nationalist) – People's Republic of Mozambique (Black nationalist) – People's Republic of Angola (criminal syndicate) - People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Junta of National Reconstruction (Nicaragua) (evil) - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (evil) - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (not fully communist) - Grenada (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Jamaica (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (not fully communist) - Michael Manley (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Maurice Bishop (not fully communist and liked the UK as much as they did Cuba) - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (evil)
The founding nations	Russian SFSR - Ukrainian SSR - Byelorussian SSR - Transcaucasian SFSR - Bukharan People's Soviet Republic - Khorezm People's Soviet Republic - Tashkent Soviet -Communist Party of the Soviet Union - The Bolshevik Party
Bolshevik\Soviet annexations	Estonia (annexed) - Latvia (annexed) - Lithuania (annexed) - Kaliningrad Oblast (annexed) - Finnish Civil War (the Reds lost) - Mongolian People's Republic (annexation failed) - The Far Eastern Republic (annexed) - Far Eastern Republic (annexed) - Tuvan People's Republic (annexed) - Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (annexed) - State of Buryat-Mongolia (annexed) - Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (annexed) - Kronstadt Republic (crushed) - Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (SSRB) (crushed)- The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) (crushed)
Other former European, Central Asian and Iranian puppet or client states	Litbell - Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) - Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic - Soviet Republic of Naissaar - Latvian SSR of 1919-1920 - The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) - Bolshavik Russia - Lemko-Rusyn People's Republic- West Ukrainian People's Republic - Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - Hungarian Soviet Republic - People's State of Bavaria - Bavarian Soviet Republic - The Soviet Republic of Odessa - Kiev called the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) - Petrograd Soviet - East Turkestan Republic (ETR) - Persian Socialist Soviet Republic - Soviet Republic of Gilan - Azerbaijan People's Government - Republic of Mahabad (1946) - Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Other stuff	Life under communism - Sputnik 1- Khrushchyovka - When is not a Yugo to a Yugo? - Soviet Space Program - The purveyors of crappy Cold War era Easter Block cars- Vietnam War - 1950–1953 Korean War - Family in the Soviet Union - Radio Moscow - Tatra trams#T3 and T3R.P trams - M62 locomotive - TEP80 locomotive - Stalin's cult of personality - De-Stalinisation - Soviet medals‎ - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros - The Agrokomerc Affair - Peruvian conflict - Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement - Cambodian genocide - The Jewish Holocaust and Roma Porajmos in the Baltic states - Italian Communist Party -"Reds under the bed" - The Holodomor - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution - Sandinistas - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - Viet Cong - Pathet Lao - Soviet 'oligophrenics' and 'oligophrenia' - New Jewel Movement - The 'false' Cold War theory - All the Communist countries during the Cold War - People's Liberation Army (of China) - People's Republic of China - GAZ Group Holding -Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) - Polish United Workers' Party

Latin American juntas and dictatorships! (1944-1992)
Operation Condor, Operation PBFortune and other black-opps	Black-opps - Operation PBFortune - special-opps- Operation Condor- American collusion in Operation Condor- French collusion in Operation Condor- Argentina's "Dirty War" - Operation Soberanía - La Violencia - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - United States invasion of Panama - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Systems of state repression	The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos - Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Death flight - Political disappearances
The ones who tried to get nukes	Brazil (failed) - Chile (failed) - Argentina (failed) - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis
Economics	Paving the Quito-Tulcán road in the early 1970s - Argentine Cold War era hyper inflation- Brazil's development of the Amazon region in the 1970s- Transamazon Highway (BR-230) (the 1970s part)
Politics and Geo-politics	Falklands sovereignty dispute - 1982 Falklands War - Cold War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - United States invasion of Panama - 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties
Technology	Alacrán (Condor IAIII) missile - The Condor and Alacrán missile programs - El Torero Enojado (fake aircraft) - FMA IA 58 Pucará - FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
People	General Augusto Pinochet - Alfredo Stroessner - Jorge Rafael Videla - Guillermo Rodríguez (politician) - Leopoldo Galtieri - Juan Domingo Perón -Gustavo Rojas Pinilla- Luis García Meza Tejada - Juan María Bordaberry - Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Manuel Apolinario Odría - João Goulart -Dwight D. Eisenhower - Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno - Anastasio Somoza García - Rafael Trujillo - Fulgencio Batista - Fidel Castro - Carlos Castillo Armas - Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North - Omar Torrijos - Anastasio Somoza Debayle - Luis Somoza Debayle - General Oswaldo López Arellano - (General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García - General Romeo Lucas García - General Carlos Humberto Romero
Important places	The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Wars and civil wars	Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - Contras - Sandinistas - Operation Soberanía - Argentina's "Dirty War" - 1982 Falklands War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - La guerra del fútbol - Guatemalan Civil War - Salvadoran Civil War - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution
Other stuff	601 Commando Company - 602 Commando Company - 601 Air Assault Regiment - 5th Marine Battalion (Argentina) - Guatemalan genocide against the Maya - Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

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