{"id":36080,"date":"2018-07-20T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36080"},"modified":"2018-07-20T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:06:05","slug":"when-the-us-invaded-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36080","title":{"rendered":"When the US Invaded Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the US Invaded Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Amidst the backdrop of increased U.S.-Russian tensions and even talk of war, long forgotten is the time the U.S. actually invaded, explains Jeff Klein.
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\"\"<\/a>Amid the bi-partisan mania over the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, fevered, anti-Russian rhetoric in the United States makes conceivable what until recently seemed inconcievable: that dangerous tensions between Russia and the U.S. could lead to military conflict. It has happened before.<\/p>\n

In September 1959, during a brief thaw in the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev made his famous visit to the United States. In Los Angeles,\u00a0the\u00a0Soviet leader was invited to a luncheon at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios in Hollywood and\u00a0during a long and rambling exchange<\/u><\/a>\u00a0he had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cYour armed intervention in Russia was the most unpleasant\u00a0thing that ever occurred in the relations between our two countries,\u00a0for we had never waged war against America until then; our troops\u00a0have never set foot on American soil, while your troops have set\u00a0foot on Soviet soil.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These remarks by Khrushchev were little noted in the U.S. press at the time \u2013 especially compared to his widely-reported\u00a0complaint about not being allowed to visit Disneyland.\u00a0 But even if Americans read about Khrushchev\u2019s comments it is likely that few of them would have had any idea what the Soviet Premier was talking about.<\/p>\n

But Soviet \u2013 and now Russian \u2014 memory is much more persistent.\u00a0\u00a0The wounds of foreign invasions, from Napoleon to the Nazis, were still fresh in Russian public consciousness in 1959 \u2014 and even in Russia today \u2014 in a way most Americans could not imagine.\u00a0 Among other things, that is why the Russians reacted with so much outrage to the expansion of NATO to its borders in the 1990\u2019s, despite U.S. promises not to do so\u00a0during the negotiations for the unification of Germany.<\/p>\n

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When the US Invaded Russia Amidst the backdrop of increased U.S.-Russian tensions and even talk of war, long forgotten is the time the U.S. actually invaded, explains Jeff Klein. Amid the bi-partisan mania over the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, fevered, anti-Russian rhetoric in the United States makes conceivable what until recently seemed inconcievable: that dangerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8956,6963,3215,20935,8963,20936,694,827],"class_list":["post-36080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bolshevik-revolution","tag-consortium-news","tag-invasion","tag-jeff-klein","tag-nikita-khrushchev","tag-october-revolution","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36081,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36080\/revisions\/36081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}