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The USSR played a lot of "The Grapes of Wrath" in their movie theaters during the Cold War. This was because they wanted everyone to see how capitalism creates poor people. No joke.

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The USSR was set to join the USA to go to the moon, but this collapsed after the death of JFK. The Soviets simply didn't trust Vice President Johnson.

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Hedy Lamarr, an American actress born in Austria, invented technology to stop the Nazis from jamming Navy torpedoes. This technology was not used in WWII, but was later used in the Cold War.

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The USSR actually liberated more concentration camps than all the other allies combined. Now, there's seriously something to be said for that.

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Americans were subject to the Red Scare during the Cold War. This was a deep fear of communist subversion.

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The truth is that both nations feared nuclear annihilation during the Cold War. Both nations were also testing their nuclear arsenals at the same time.

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It's believed that the fear of communism in the US began with President Truman's Loyalty Program in 1947. This called for allegiance to the US by federal employees under the penalty of immediate termination.

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Crazy as it may sound, the USSR could tell a real Soviet passport from a fake based on the staples. The staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor metal used.

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Remember TETRIS? One of the most popular video games of the '80s earned no royalties for its inventor, Alexey Pajitnov. That's because the rights were owned by the Soviet government.

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Did you know that the USSR drilled a super deep hole, just to see how deep they could drill? The Kola Superdeep Borehole went down into the earth 7.5 miles.

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The US was home to the Subversive Activities Control Board in 1950. This was thanks to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

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In Soviet Russia, prisoners would get tattoos of Stalin and Lenin. This was because guards were not allowed to shoot at these images.

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The US may have made it to the moon first, but the USSR was the first to make a Hobbit movie. This film was made in 1985.

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In the US, there was a strong trend toward labor unions after the Second World War. These organizations campaigned for higher wages and more power in the workplace.

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The Taft-Hartley Act was passed by Congress in 1947. It required labor unions to confirm that none of their leaders were communist.

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In WWII, there was a woman-only bomber regiment called the "Night Witches." They got the name from German soldiers.

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Of course, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place in the USSR. They did not admit that the reactor had exploded until alarms were set off at a nuclear power plant in Sweden.

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The House Un-American Activities Committee was in the United States. This was developed in 1938 to seek out and eliminate suspected communist subversion.

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Due to HUAC, certain members of Hollywood were suspected of engaging in the communist party. Many actors, actresses, directors and writers lost their careers.

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The US was geographically more fortunate during WWII. The Siege of Stalingrad alone was enough to do some serious damage to the USSR.

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The Katyn Massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish nationals in 1940. There was one Soviet NKVD executioner that personally killed 7,000 Polish officers over a 28-day period.

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The US might have launched the first man, but the USSR launched the first animal. Laika was found as a stray animal on the streets of Moscow.

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On the eve of the Nazi invasion of Russia, there was actually a German soldier that deserted to the Soviets. He would eventually be executed by Stalin.

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Sorry, USSR. During the Cold War, they pointed nukes at a heavily trafficked building in the center courtyard of the Pentagon. It ended up being a hotdog stand.

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Well, that would be the US, of course. We added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, and it symbolized the resistance against communism.

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No joke, the US almost airdropped condoms that said "Medium" into the USSR. This was to demoralize them, of course.

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This is a delightful quote from Nikita Khrushchev. He was speaking to Mao Zedong.

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During the Cold War, the US had Operation Kitty. They literally surgically implanted cats with bugging devices to eavesdrop on Soviet conversations.

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Would you believe that an 18-year old German aviator, with very little flying experience, illegally landed in the Red Square? He did it to reduce tensions during the US and the USSR.

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The US was home to the Manhattan Project. During WWII, this was where the first nuclear weapons were created.

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A Soviet submarine thought it was under attack from depth charges and nearly began WWIII with a nuclear weapon. They would learn that the depth charges were training rounds used to signal them to surface.

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We thought you needed an easy one! The USSR was dissolved, but the physical document that made it official has been missing since 2013.

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The USSR landed the first manmade spacecraft on Venus. it was the Soviet Venera 7, and it landed in 1970.

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The USSR's maps of the Canadian Arctic are legendary They're so good that ships use them today over official maps.

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The US Air Force actually had a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. We're pretty sure that that would have been a bad idea.