How were the people treated during the cold war?

Answer 1

After the Korean War, the Duck and Cover Period,the U-2 incident involving Francis Gary Powers, the Bay of Pigs , the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall and Airlift, the Warsaw Crisis, and numerous unpubished events, the .world settled down to a comfortable ten plus years in the Vietnam War

Answer 2

Pretty much the same as they are treated today. Many people believe that the cold war is not yet over, that it continues still today. There is some defense for this perspective. In a nuclear sense, consider that there are more nations today that are nuclear capable, including Iran and North Korea. The world is not a safe place.

Back on point, from a first person perspective (I was there as a child and later as a nuclear missile crewman), in general people lived under a constant cloud of fear. There was always the knowledge that if anyone launched at the US, the US would immediately retaliate, and the whole world would be done. As a young student, nearly monthly, we practiced bomb drills. We crawled under our desks with a book across the back of our heads and necks. I remember, even in the first grade thinking, what is the point of this? If the bombs drop, there will be a flash of light, some heat, and then a huge blast that would make sawdust of everything--the building we were in, the desks under which we hid, the books with which we tried to protect ourselves, and us. In hindsight, I suspect the drills were something to keep us busy.

As a nuclear soldier, I spent two years training, and six months on a permanent nuclear missile sight, all the time knowing that if we ever saw our weapons stand on their tail fins, we would all be dead, perhaps a radioactive cloud rolling out of a green glass bowl, about five minutes after the tails caught fire.

People generally treated themselves to a constant (or nearly constant) miasma of fear. And, there was a lot to cause the fear.

Nikita Krushchev illustrated it best in his address to Western ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow, 18 November 1956: (phonetically - My vas pokhoronim!) Mistakenly translated, "We will bury you." What The Supreme Soviet was trying to say was: We will give you the shovel with which you will bury yourself. And, while the Soviet Union is no more, history may one day show that we followed soon after. The USSR is gone, but the fear remains (remember the recent lock down of one of America's largest cities because of the search for a single 19 year old bomber found bleeding out in some guy's boat).

Answer 3

The government for the United States was independent and the government for U.S.S.R was communism in the cold war

Answer 4

it also opened the doors to paranoia for a whole generation and made questioning the government the norm rather than the exception.

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