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Originally Posted by Hugh
We had to police protests and guard our bases from protestors, who thought what we were doing was evil - the same protestors didn't duplicate those behaviours in the countries of the 'other side', who also had nuclear weapons...
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I thought that was what you meant, but didn't want to comment as that it show a massive wedge of naivety on your part.
The countries behind the iron curtain were not what you would call " free" countries.
If the mothers of Moscow or Leningrad had started to congregate outside the nuclear bases of the CCCP they would have bee carted off to the gulag.