Americans call it the factor that broke up the Eastern Front. The Star Wars program, and apparently today (23rd) it’s the day that former President Reagan announced his SDI program.
I’ll leave it to the experts, but as a kid then, who grew up with Star Wars (The Movie), I honestly thought the Americans were up to their yo-yos. That Reagan calling Russia ‘The Evil Empire’ didn’t help either. I sometimes wonder how Americans of my age felt. I wonder how the Russians felt. I mean, a year later, Hollywood released a movie about Russians invading America. Starring mr. Dirty Dancing!
Hilarious, if you think about it.