TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 hours agoTIL that the CIA helped fund the Abstract Expressionism movement in order to fuel propaganda and win the Cold war.www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the CIA helped fund the Abstract Expressionism movement in order to fuel propaganda and win the Cold war.www.bbc.comTheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoRealistically, the Soviet leadership crashed the system. The Afghan War was supposed to be a walkover. Turned into a quagmire. They couldn’t get rid of Poland’s Solidarity Union, or Pope John Paul II. Three leaders died during Reagan’s term. Chernobyl was another sign that the entire architecture was getting ready to collapse. Gorbachev tried to modernize the bureaucracy, but oldtimers who’d been holding onto power for decades weren’t going to give up without a fight. Plenty of americans will claim that Reagan destroyed the USSR, but that’s just propaganda they’ve chosen to swallow.
Realistically, the Soviet leadership crashed the system.
The Afghan War was supposed to be a walkover. Turned into a quagmire. They couldn’t get rid of Poland’s Solidarity Union, or Pope John Paul II.
Three leaders died during Reagan’s term.
Chernobyl was another sign that the entire architecture was getting ready to collapse.
Gorbachev tried to modernize the bureaucracy, but oldtimers who’d been holding onto power for decades weren’t going to give up without a fight.
Plenty of americans will claim that Reagan destroyed the USSR, but that’s just propaganda they’ve chosen to swallow.