For my entire life the US government has been trying to portray Russia as bent on world domination. There has never been any evidence this is the case.
“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination ‘seeing’, to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, ‘the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.’ How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this ‘international misunderstanding’ challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact… If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”
- Enoch Powell 1983
My first wife was Russian, and they were taught the same lies about Americans as we were taught about Russians.
