Comments by "Christopher Conard" (@christopherconard2831) on "The Cold War" channel.

  1. A worker's soviet was convened. There was unanimous consent to push the like button. When the subject of the subscribe button, also referred to as the bell button, schisms were found. While all agreed it should be pushed various factions, all with ties to different current leaders in government posts and from varying ethnicities, the degree of "bell pushing" was disputed. There were many proposals put forward to solve the issue. But none gained a strong enough majority support. Some factions called for it just to be pushed and to revisit the subject later. But radicals from others called in foreign allies for support of only their position and threatened a walkout which would lead to a collapse of the soviet due to failure from lacking enough representation to create a legal quorum. Others called for a general strike until the subject was finally decided. The entire situation was on the verge of becoming a spark that would ignite another revolution. The situation was resolved when an entity known only as "Thumb" pressed Bell Button while the others were consulting with their constituents. While not a perfect solution it will do for now. We are certain that continuing along this path will absolutely not lead to civil war or ethnic cleansing by the various groups in the future. We see only peace and prosperity in perpetuity.
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  2. Back when the Superfund sites were being created my father noticed something odd about them. They were all former private industrial locations, or municipal waste disposal sites. No joint corporate/federal locations or federal controlled areas like military bases were listed. He'd been career navy and knew every base had places you didn't want to spend time at. It had been common practice to get rid of extra "stuff" by either tossing it in a burn pit or burning it in an oil drum. As long as it wasn't too noxious or no one immediately got sick, no one cared. If on a ship it was common to just toss it overboard. Not on your boat, not your problem.
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  3. So what you're saying is, walking into a bar while wearing a custom fitted tuxedo, ordering a couple martinis, giving your real name and letting people know you work for an intelligence agency doesn't work. I knew something was off about that Bond fellow.
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  4. When all of this came out I can imagine the anger in many former German intelligence personnel. "These?!? These are the sort of idiots that outsmarted us?"
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  5. The Generals investigated and reviewed my history of the subscribe button. They have approved a thumb up for this video.
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  6. Throughout history there are places that are the center of "events". Poland starts sweating
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  7. Troops that were sent to Czechoslovakia were told they were going to save locals (who would welcome them) from foreign counter-revolutionaries. They were genuinely confused when there were no foreigners and the local Czechs were less than welcoming.
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  8. Old joke about Hoover. "Sir, what are your thoughts about the Indianapolis 500?" "I personally haven't looked too deeply into yet, but I'm sure they're all guilty."
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  9.  @ilikedota5  At it's peak Zimbabwe was doubling prices about once a day. Germany around once every four days. In Hungary it was every twelve hours. To fully grasp the situation, something that cost you $1 on Monday morning would cost over $1,000 Friday night. Of course by that point prices were theoretical. I doubt more than a few people were wandering around with actual useable cash. A barter system would take over.
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  10. In the late 40's this probably made sense on paper. But no one thought about what to do with all these weapon stashes if they needed to be removed. Most of the counties where they were placed weren't informed ahead of time, so there would be a bit of a diplomatic issue if the US suddenly asked permission to dig up the stockpiles. I remember reading about a few, presumably from the same program, that were accidentally found during demolition and construction projects in France.
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  11. Well, at least this time around they admit it's a Russian empire they want. Despite the USSR being portrayed as a group of equal socialist states, (Remembering that some are more equal than others.) it was always the Russian Empire.
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  12. Through divination a voice spoke to me. It said "Don't forget the like button".
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  13. Previously I oppressed the like button. Now the bell. Has the like button been properly reeducated and rehabilitated?
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  14.  @TheLuuuuuc  All that broken pottery archeologists find today had to come from somewhere.
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  15.  @VeeDubConnoisseur  And corn.
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  16. I'm waiting for that in a political debate. "With my new proposal the people will have more time. More time to....(pauses for dramatic effect)... Join me on Raid Shadow Legends!"
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  17. As a long haired greasy teen wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt and players handbook in my stack of books, while living in southern part of the Bible Belt I remember it well.
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  18. The first world war destroyed the idea that the upper classes were inherently the best and brightest. And were natural born leaders who could never betray England. Unfortunately the intelligence services didn't get the memo. As he mentioned, the British buried their investigation into how this happened. They didn't want to admit the number of people who were admitted to sensitive areas purely on "He's one of Lord Huffnpuff's boys." There was an embarrassing lack of deep background checks prior to employment.
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  19. I, like all true and loyal citizens, have always celebrated the glory of the Mighty Bell Button in the name of the Party and the People.
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  20. My Bell Button sits far to the right. Does this indicate counterrevolutionary tendencies? Should button be pushed or crushed without mercy?
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  21. That sums up probably 90% of the cold war conflicts. A and B both occupy an area of land. A and B have people in charge that, if left alone, could work out most of their disagreements. But A and B each also have radicals that will do anything to keep the other from having the slightest access to power, including killing their own people who are trying to make peace. Add outside influences from Washington, Moscow and elsewhere and things escalate. Throw in some religious animosity just for fun too. Pretty much most of post war and post colonial Africa, Asia, and Middle East.
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  22. The reason the big ZIL and ZIS cars used by party leaders look like 40's/50's era American cars is because they basically were. Stalin liked the big Packards made in the US, so he ordered the equivalent be made for the USSR. Despite the myth, Packard did not sell the parts or production equipment to Russia.
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  23. I can neither confirm nor deny any association of a Mecha Streisand that is roaming my neighborhood. The huge explosion and hole in my back yard are a complete coincidence.
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  24.  @theendangeredcatcoon9554  Towards the end of the Resource Wars most European countries turned on each other. NATO, in whatever form it had by that point, was already shattered. Besides, we didn't invade Canada, we "occupied" it for their own protection. They couldn't stand up to a potential Chinese invasion by themselves. All this invasion talk sounds like commie propaganda. I'd be very careful about who to associate with if I were you.
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  25. I saw them as a "private company" much like Amtrak or the USPS are private companies in America.
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  26. Probably a picture or clip owned by someone. A lot of the footage of that time is owned by various media groups, some of which are very protective.
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  27. Also known as "ribs". Large x-rays, like of chests worked best.
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  28. I pretend to pay the bell button, it pretends to work.
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  29. Coast Guard cutters with a equivalent of a Davy Crockett nuclear cannon. Stop smugglers and help people on the beach get that all over healthy tanned look at the same time.
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  30. Megalomaniac is actually an accurate description of MacArthur. If he didn't see himself as a devine Caesar, he did an excellent imitation.
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  31. They refused to vote until they could speak to the manager. Or Queen if available.
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  32. Gentlemen's agreement. They pretend they aren't there, or if they are only as advisors. We pretend not to notice the radio interceptions in clear Russian. Washington and Moscow both wanted to make sure what happened in Korea stayed in Korea.
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  33. Instructions for the bell button are too complicated. Instead I shall plant corn in honor of both Mighty Bell Button and Glorious Leader.
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  34. We, the Association for the Liberation of Bell Button, demand that buttons everywhere be allowed freedom to travel! Also that the Bell Button Liberation Coalition Spits on ground be universally condemned as a terrorist organization who are only using Button based issues as a means of criminal self enrichment.
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  35.  @petebondurant58  And Nixon was almost guaranteed to win reelection in 1972. He didn't "need" to be associated with anyone desperate enough to plan the Watergate break-in, but he was. The desire for power can create allies that, in hindsight, are absolutely disastrous.
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  36. I choose to take multiple pictures of Bell Button from 3' with microfilm camera.
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  37. Well intentioned. But then, the road to hell. Not justifying much of what happened. Even when some problems were shown to be exasperated by the programs that were supposed to be fixing the solution was to double down and make the program larger.
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  38. Mr Bell Button has assured me that he is thoroughly protected and masked. He requested that I maintain a greater than usual distance.
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  39. In the late 50's/early 60's WWIII was considered a when, not an if. By the mid to late 1960's the major powers finally took a serious look at the numbers and realized MAD was the only likely outcome. Despite heavy sabre rattling everyone settled into proxy wars.
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  40. The move from centralized to private shelters started in the mid 60's. It was around then that they realized they just weren't practical. If an attack occurred on a weekday afternoon, with an hour's warning they could save some people. Any other time and more people would be caught in the open trying to get to a shelter then they would save. Centralized shelters were continued, but their importance was deemphasized. By the 80's, and everyone had enough firepower to make the rubble bounce several times, shelters for the general population were largely abandoned.
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  41. Despite it being determined in the mid 50's that they were largely useless it was decided to keep them around because they made people feel better. This is also why civil defense started pushing home shelters in the 1950's.
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  42. Secret at the time.
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  43. Stalin "We assure you. You will never see a Soviet soldier or airman face." Pilots "Okay everyone, remember to keep your helmet on and tinted face shield down."
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  44. There is a lot of evidence that the Chicago vote was bought off by the Democrats/Kennedy family. It's almost all anecdotal and circumstantial, but it does exist. But buying elections in Chicago was not new in 1960, and continues through today.
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  45. Oopsies with radioactive material are unfortunately too common. They usually involve either scrap dealers, or something put in storage and people forget what it is. Staff changes, paperwork gets lost over time, and eventually someone decides to get rid of the big thing in the basement that no one knows what it is or why it was there to begin with. I believe the YouTube channel Plainly Difficult has done a few videos on some of these events.
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  46. But they can strike. They, at most, will endanger their jobs. Striking in the Soviet Union was much more dangerous.
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  47. They had a representative in the UN building every day after that.
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  48. A couple of my schools had them too. Later I thought it was kind of weird because we lived in the flash fry zone. I didn't have to worry about fallout because I was going to be part of it.
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  49. The US Supreme Court can do the same. They have a long history of "incentive interpretation" of previous laws. Most Americans are surprised that there is no right to privacy in the constitution. The justices cherry picked a few phrases from other amendments, stuck them together, and created it. But, since they did, we now (sort of) have one.
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  50. Many of his advisors openly admired Stalin and hoped America could become another socialist nation modeled after the Soviet Union.
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