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Stalin's people also at point believed Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five were British double agents trying to trick them. Why? Because for all their claimed access to British secrets, they gave not one report about the British efforts to destroy the Soviet Union's workers' democracy! Never...

So basically, it was the US giving something up it really didn't need or want to keep.

IIRC the reason the Turkey withdrawals are still seen as a "win" on the US side is either because the US intended to pull them already or because they were an older model of missile that weren't as valuable? I forget, and I might be wrong.

I've actually never seen either film. I do have the soundtracks, but that's because I collect soundtracks. :)

Scotsman: Why didn't you have the bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge? Mel Gibson: The bridge kept getting in the way. Scotsman: Aye, the English had that problem too. He certainly brought it to completion, but IIRC he had to do some nasty things to win and secure his throne (again IIRC...

The Lost Cause and the idea that the Southern States opposed Lincoln on the subject of "states' rights". It's a myth that has been turned into historical fact and "heritage" and is especially galling given the South's record on the issue of state vs. federal power in the antebellum, when they...