[KC-10A BOOMER]

Worked INF-START treaties while stationed at Travis AFB in the 90s. The base opened a new Base Exchange that even impressed those of us stationed there. We took a group of Russian inspectors to go shopping and I watch a guy in his mid-40’s just stand there in shock at first and they you could see he was fuming as he figured out he had been lied to about how bad the US really was. I felt kind of sorry for the guy, but know how he feels as our overlords in Mordor on the Potomac work their magic on what was once a great nation.

[riverdawg]

I met a visiting Russian chemist in the early 1990’s. His host (a friend of mine) took him to the local Kroger grocery store one day. At first, the chemist thought the store was either (1) an elaborate propaganda set or (2) only for the “elites”. One he realized that the Kroger was real and ordinary citizens could shop there and afford the groceries, he broke down and cried - realizing that he had been told a pack of lies about the US his entire life.