# Remember when the Soviets rolled over Europe in the 1980's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362 "2005-05-18T05:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/1 "2005-05-18T05:14:17Z")
Me neither, but [This Guy does](http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/heavyweapon) And it’s a hell of a lot more fun then I imagined(Download the deluxe version). In Soviet Russia, You Nuke Tanks! In America, Tank nukes you! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/2 "2005-05-18T10:40:50Z")
Перемещение в **Cafe Society**. Comrade. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/3 "2005-05-18T14:06:55Z")
Our Canadian boys stationed in West Germany knew how to defeat the Sovieyt hordes (or at least delay them until the main US force deployed): simply retreat westward towards the English Channel, but leave small piles of booze, VCRs, blenders, walkmans, portable TVs, digital watches, “Penthouse,” etc. by the side of the road. Your Ivans couldn’t resist–it would bog down their spearhead for a week! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/4 "2005-05-18T16:03:43Z")
In the alternate-history collection of essays “Cold War Hot” (ed. by Peter Tsouras, IIRC), NATO air-drops hundreds of thousands of unbreakable containers of vodka over the advancing Soviet hordes, causing the Soviet offensive to quickly grind to a halt. There was an '80s board game called “Objective: Moscow,” with the tables turned and NATO racing to capture the Soviet capital before winter fell (trying to learn from Napoleon’s and Hitler’s mistakes). The cover showed the Stars and Stripes flying from St. Basil’s Cathedral spire. On a more serious note: The book “The Third World War: June 1985” (not sure of exact title) is a good, detailed overview of how a conventional war in W Europe might have unfolded at that time. Also worth a read is “Dropshot,” about the US’s late-'40s nuclear warplans in the event of a Soviet invasion of W Europe. ---
**Author:** ![A\_qui\_profite\_le\_crime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_qui\_profite\_le\_crime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_qui_profite_le_crime)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/5 "2005-05-18T16:06:56Z")
Another fan! Excellent! I was also surprised by how addictive the game could be. I’ve gotten the habit of playing the game a bit after coming home from work. There is something soothing and relaxing (not to mention satisfying) about destroying a zeppelin, a death-ray-firing satellite and an assortment of planes with a Nuke. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/6 "2005-05-18T18:21:05Z")
Is that ‘pop-up loader’ it wants to install spyware? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-when-the-soviets-rolled-over-europe-in-the-1980s/304362/7 "2005-05-18T20:32:47Z")
In Soviet Union spyware spies on you but in America spyware spies on…uh…you. Oh well. ☹