No! Go find your own!

So my coworkers and I filling another coworker's cubicle with balloons while he was on vacation was an act of cruelty? :'(

What are you? Some kind of scientician?

I love how the area had a persistent speaker squeal for a very long time after Bart did that.

Where… thing… use… scoop… food?

I'm sick and tired of all your RULES!

I love that exchange.

It sure was ingrained. I remember casual jokes about nuclear annihilation being pretty common.

Cool. Sounds like an interesting read.

We were told outright that the drills were for nuclear attack.

Seems reasonable.

But they still worked with him and respected him. Today's GOP would disavow him and dismember him if possible.

Then there was this:

Reagan, the president the right deifies today, would be reviled by "Republicans" as a compromiser if he were in office today.

Oh yes, I remember duck and cover drills at school in the 80s.

But why did we create fictional individualistic heroes and the Soviets not? I say it had to do with the mentality of collectivism. The people you listed were, well, real. Why no fictional characters that were larger than life?

Do you happen to have a Polaroid?

I think the lack of Red Dawn or Rambo like movies from the Soviet Union was in part due to the fact that our culture celebrates individuals and their culture celebrated the collective. It would apply to heroes and villains alike.

The MiG or the F-5? :)

I had one of those. I would create Terminator-like scenarios where the android was nearly indestructible and would kill just about everyone before finally being destroyed.