The USSR was imperialist. It conquered and then oppressed many countries, and tried to conquer more - ironically including Afghanistan.

It denied basic freedoms to its people, including the freedom of information. It ran vast work camps - gulags - where political prisoners and criminals were slave laborers for the state, and where many died due to apalling conditions.

The idea that the USSR was about peace is fantasy. The USSR collaborated with fascist Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland, where the Soviet army massacred almost all of the capture officers of the Polish Army, and then blamed it on the Nazi's.

The Soviets had a nuclear arms program well before the "missile gap" and kept increasing it over time. The Soviets exported their form of revolution: totalitarian regimes replacing mere authoritarian or corrupt regimes.

I used to monitor Soviet propaganda, I toured former Soviet eastern Europe, and my father traveled to the USSR many times during the Cold War. It was a miserable place, with the people oppressed. When planes left Soviet airspace, the passengers cheered - they could feel freedom return.

I also toured East Berlin under the heel of the Soviet Army. It was horrible, with many people standing and just looking at the wall which had been erected 3 years before to prevent them from escaping to freedom. That wall, and it's extension - the "Iron Curtain" - cut off the subjects of the Soviet empire from the west, denying them freedom, prosperity and information. I toured a radio station (RIAS) that broadcast the truth to the East. It was routinely jammed by Soviet jamming stations, so that the people could not hear the truth. RIAS engineers were proud of their ability to rapidly switch frequencies to avoid the jammers.

This article is a piece of fiction. It is Russian propaganda, probably by a Russian propagandist. If not, by a "useful fool" for them.