Soviets
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Sankar: Soviets spent $7 billion in adjusted dollars funding US anti-war protests
“The Soviets spent seven billion dollars in 20, 26 dollars funding the peace movement, the anti-war protests.”
Andreessen: Soviets created the term 'anti-fascist' as communist propaganda
“The term anti-fascist was created in that era, right, actually by the Soviets as a propaganda term to basically, you know, kind of mean communist.”
Andreessen: Soviet egalitarian biology was a primary cause of famines
“And so the Soviets developed their own egalitarian biology, which, by the way, was one of the big reasons for all the famines.”
Andreessen: Declassified records prove Rosenbergs passed bomb wiring instructions to Soviets
“What we know today is that they were guilty. What we know today is that specifically they were handling, I think it was their nephew, if I recall correctly, a guy, I believe his name is David Greenglass, and he was a technician. He was an engineer at the Manha…”
Soviet authorities lacked IP experience and received minimal early Tetris royalties
“The Soviets just didn't have any experience with intellectual property, and here they were, you know, they were getting a percentage of a percentage of a percentage.”
Eremenko: Soviets flew the hydrogen-powered Tupolev 155 airliner in 1988
“The Soviets actually flew an airliner called the Tupolev one 55 on hydrogen and in 1988.”
US aircraft carriers are extremely vulnerable and not designed for peer conflicts
“They are extremely vulnerable to the point where we feel like we can't use them. The problem is aircraft carriers were not designed to be a peer-to-peer a peer-to-peer great powers tool for us to go toe-to-toe with the Soviets or the Chinese.”
Harper: Totalitarianism is rooted in original Marxism, not subsequent distortions
“Anyone who says that, you know, Marxism was distorted into totalitarianism by the Soviets or the Chinese, whoever, is missing, you know, is missing the whole, you read Original Marxism. The totalitarianism is at its root.”
Soviet WWII anti-tank dog program failed due to unpredictable animal behavior
“For example, the Soviets, they trained dogs to run under tanks, enemy tanks, and they had explosives attached to them, and they were meant to blow up the tanks. And a bunch of things went wrong. So, first of all, they had trained the dogs on their own tank, Wh…”