Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet’s questions about the “Cold War” contested by The Soviet Union and United States. Why was it named “the Cold War?” Was the threat of communism overblown by the United States? What is a proxy war? Why did the United States and USSR make so many nuclear warheads? Did the Soviets have technologies that surpassed those of NATO? Are we in a new Cold War today? Answers to these questions and many more await on Cold War Support.
0:00 Cold War Support
0:14 Cold War: Beginnings
1:33 What was “the height” of the Cold War?
3:16 Did we psych ourselves out?
4:28 Good morning! Vault-Tec calling!
5:21 Stalin: As evil as they say?
5:54 The Berlin Wall
7:42 The dowing of Gary Power’s U2
8:40 Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
10:12 Things fall apart
11:04 The JFK Files
12:13 The Americans: Accurate?
13:15 Was Reagan’s presidency an important factor in ending the Cold War?
14:02 Gorbachev
15:21 Nice government you got there…
16:29 ☭
17:08 China and Russia: Best Frenemies
17:54 Kissinger
18:25 Russians in Afghanistan
19:28 Cold War Films
20:34 NATO
21:22 Are we in a new Cold War?
22:27 Did the Soviets have technologies that surpassed those of NATO?
23:28 Nukes-a-plenty
24:23 No way of knowing, impossible
24:56 What are we even fighting about
25:29 Proxy wars
26:43 Korea
27:19 The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
28:00 Why was the KGB more successful than the CIA?
28:45 Calling out in transit! Calling out in transit! Radio-Free Europe!
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Michael Kimmage
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Talent Booker:
Camera Operator: Constantine Economides
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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Completely ignoring the American act of provocation in Turkey says as much as I need to know about this guy’s bias.
The Cuban missile crisis was not a provocation my American friend. It was a retaliation to US ICBMs being installed in Turkey.
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story.
And while this was all happening the British and the French were building a supersonic passenger plane
Laos did fall to communism LMAO
I wouldn’t say the US lost the Korean conflict. Our goal was to maintain a South Korea and that’s what happened.
Didn’t the US have nuclear arms in countries near Russia before Russia had arms put in Cuba?
Wow, no Chile?
26:21 Weren’t those Wagner soldiers ? not russian?)
it’s funny that communism never works
I think its a bit of a stretch to say the USSR would have nuked USA if we invaded Cuba. I have no doubt they would have saber rattled like crazy, but to launch an attack against the US that would mutually destroy the USSR just to save Castro? Not happening
I remember a single-panel cartoon describing the Cold War as the US and USSR sitting together in a bathtub full of gasoline, while comparing who has more matches.
We have a family friend, Peter Robinson, who works for the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Back in the day, he was a speechwriter on Reagan’s staff, and by the luck of the draw he is the one who wrote Reagan’s “tear down this wall” speech. Our small connection to history.
In a way, the United States won the Cold War because they were more afraid of the USSR than the Soviets were of them.
These are mostly pretty half-assed explanations
He took that radio free Europe question in stride, I would have giggled for sure 😆
Half of the questions suggest to me that that the young today simply don’t appreciate the value and importance of Western Civilization.
At 3:15 he put typical western propaganda. Today Ukraine is in same stage
I don’t see how he kept a professional demeanor for some of these questions. Especially the “Radio Free Europe” one. Seriously? Taking all the radios out of Europe?
SLAYER!
one thing about cuban missle crisis i have noticed is people and even in my school they never taught us that US was the one who placed nuclear weapons in Italy and turkey after which USSR placed in Cuba as well