[Nowhere Man]

I know, it seems to me that there are many people who see the Cold War as ancient history. Myself, I remember it quite well, but I’m 42 years old.

[KarlInOhio]

I still occasionally call that big country with Moscow as the capital "The Soviet Union" instead of Russia even though the Soviet Union has been gone for 17 years.

A local radio talk host says the fall of the Soviet Union was bad for us because we no longer have them around as a bad example. It was much easier to show socialism as bad when it involved a multi-hour line to get a few half-rotten beets in the USSR.