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Originally Posted by Severian

I remember a bit of this, though I was pretty young. But I do recall "red scare" topical plot lines taking over a lot of cinema. Like Rocky IV or Superman IV -- not rife with Cold War analogies. Not very subtle in Rocky's case... more like a blunt force blow to the head.

the thing with ronnie raygun's policy was that he heated up the cold war

like, the russians were faithfully following the arms reduction treaties

but ronnie ratcheded up the rhetoric + armament production

and the country & the media followed and/or responded with demonizations

(not that the soviets were saints, but... )

turns out after the cold war ended it came out that we had gotten so good at spying on them it was easy to predict their demise

but politicians work through fear. especially the right wing ones.