[Fiji Hill]

The one event from the 1980's that I especially remember is the invasion of Granada on October 25, 1983. That marked the first time in the history of the Cold War--with the arguable exception of Chile in 1973 or Guatemala in 1954--that a Communist regime was overthrown, and one of the Soviet chess pieces was taken off the board.

Less than a month later, on November 22, 1983, the first Pershing II IRBM's arrived in Germany, and the theater nuclear balance in Europe at last began to tilt our way.

[Rebelbase]

“The one event from the 1980’s that I especially remember is the invasion of Granada on October 25, 1983.”

I could never figure out what the Spaniards did to warrant a US invasion.

[a fool in paradise]

The one event from the 1980's that I especially remember is the invasion of Granada on October 25, 1983. That marked the first time in the history of the Cold War--with the arguable exception of Chile in 1973 or Guatemala in 1954--that a Communist regime was overthrown, and one of the Soviet chess pieces was taken off the board.

The Soviet Communists almost launched a Mutually Assured Destruction missile attack on the West the month prior to this event (September 1983).

The Russians had a false signal that we'd launched. The man who was supposed to launch the MAD attack refused the order, nothing in the geopolitical situation indicated that we were at war. He was punished. He was later celebrated I think in the 1990s.

Communism kills. And the Red Dupes of the 1980s don't like to admit they were wrong.