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HuckleSmothered t1_j5mm95e wrote

Reply to comment by ReditSarge in Germany: 5 charged with treason in suspected terror plot. Public prosecutors said the suspects had planned to create "civil war-like conditions" in Germany. They are also accused of plotting to kidnap the health minister by DoremusJessup

I mean half the point of the cold war was to keep up the cold war. Both sides were making BANK keeping that scam going.

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ReditSarge t1_j5pzhoa wrote

Some people on both sides were getting rich, no doubt. Ultimately both nations were eventually going to go bankrupt spending money they didn't have while accumulating debt. The only difference was that the US could afford to absorb the debt while the USSR could not.

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