1983: The Brink of Apocalypse 1/8

The Soviet elite saw an aggressor in the anti-communist American leader Ronald Regan. A series of incidents including the infamous Evil Empire speech lead to 1983 when the world came to the brink of World War III and the West didn't even know it.

* * * * *

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Video uploaded for nonprofit, educational purposes only under the "fair use" provision of U.S. Code, Title 17, section 107.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• brink
• apocalypse
• 1983
• USA
• USSR
• Soviet
• Russia
• cold war
• Reagan
• Andropov
• evil empire
• Able Archer
• NATO
• KGB
• CIA
• nuclear
• atomic

[TheProjektcc]

HAHAHAHAHA Reagan was fuckin insane!!!!! I love it.

[jimsy73]

Nuc-u-lar war??? :-))) Just like that dumbass of George W. Bush...

[mnaz21]

@TheProjektcc

Wish we had Reagan today...

[kocots1991]

@Tint301 It's New Order - Blue Monday. Awesome song.

[jasrogg]

@jcsftwre agreed with in part.

[jcsftwre]

@jasrogg No this is true! I was there at Able Archer 1/81 FA PII ICBM Neu Ulm Germany.

[Extraneus73]

@youmustbethatninja So you don't see any difference between imprisonment people for crimes like robbery or murder as opposed to merely having a different opinion? And what does it matter that the concept of concentration camps existed during the rule of the tzars? Is that supposed to make it alright to keep up the practice? And what is the point of noting that the tzars didn't worry much about the lives of their subjects? All in all, your comment has absolutely no relevance to the subject...

[youmustbethatninja]

@Extraneus73 There's more people in American prison right now than in the Gulag's during Stalin's height in paranoia. And the Gulag's were merely a carry over of the Czar regime that routinely used live ammunition on protesters during World War 1.

[Tint301]

What's the name of that techno song playing right at the opening?

[Extraneus73]

@UseUrHead503 Yes, they collapsed... And why do you think they collapsed? Because of the hard-line policy of Reagan (or his staff, to be precise). Chances are the state controlled Soviet planned economy would have collapsed eventually, but Reagan forced them to overstretch themselves trying to keep up in the arms race, thus advancing the collapse and freeing the russian people from despotism and the world from the threat of nuclear destruction decades before it might otherwise have happened.

[UseUrHead503]

@Extraneus73 the Soviets collapsed mate. not destroyed by Reagan. He just totally provoked the old guys @ the Kremlin that it came to the extent that it was only a push-button away from destroying the whole world.

[Extraneus73]

@TheProjektcc : Insane? He drove the despotic soviet regime to it's knees... Sure, he gambled, but sometimes that's necessary to achieve a decent result. I'm sure you're enjoying your present life? Certainly a lot more than you would the life in a gulag...