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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuyBoy" data-source="post: 8502121" data-attributes="member: 7031143">I remember being in UK army cadets and shooting at 2d-mannequin targets, which had “Ivan” printed across their chests. Unbelievably horrific to think back on now, but didn’t even question it too deeply in the midst of the Cold War, especially in the late 1970s as Detente was running out of steam. Years later, I was in Moscow in 2015 with a party of 6th formers ( high school seniors in US?) and our guide in the city was same age as me. We talked a lot about how we’d both been brought up to hate. (Memorably, he also said that the moment McDonalds opened in Moscow was the moment he and his friends knew that the USSR had lost the Cold War. A bit like “McDonalds Peace Theory” it doesn’t stand up to full intellectual scrutiny as an analytical tool, but interesting nonetheless)Returning to the game, I may well give it a shot. Most of the people I game with are early 40s, so they’re more Huntington’s Thesis kids than Cold War kids. Should be interesting.</blockquote>