i could use some kind of quick crash course in the history of the cold war. anyone have any recs (, )? this youtube video seems pretty good so far for a noob like me
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weird time to have been born during the collapse of the soviet union. feels like i'm seeing the reintroduction of a plot line in global history that i missed the entire rest of, hard to follow without catching up
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this is pretty helpful context for several things
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Maybe do crash course instead
They have some ideological tilt but it's no where near as bad as oversimplified
youtu.be/9C72ISMF_D0
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I admire your willingness to dig in to the cold war.
Don't want to say more than that, don't want to bias you with my bullshit from having lived a big chunk of it.
It is a formidable elephant.
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it's so big jesus. the scope of it is just mind-boggling
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if you look at it as
W: Rome ... ->London->Washington
E: Constantinople ... ->Kyiv->Moscow
It's just the same East vs West beef that the two Romes, the old one on the Tiber and the new one on the Bosphorus, have been engaging in since the fourth century.
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