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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by AndrewBissell on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:42PM (#21621947)
I infer you've never lived in one of America's colonial vassal states. Both empires probably had to treat their subject populations a bit better in the presence of a geopolitical alternative.
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Re:Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project by tgv on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:47PM (#21622828)
> Both empires probably had to treat their subject populations a bit better in the presence of a geopolitical alternative.

That's not quite sane: you're (1) placing this as an alternative to a full out nuclear war, and (2) placing the US' and the USSR's influence at equal footing.

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