rom God. In much the same way, Americans envisioned that life under the Communists would be hard and tortured, devoid of personal freedoms. After witnessing the horrific crimes of Nazism, it was easy to picture the types of brutality that they might suffer if the Soviets gained control.
In the 70Æs, the Cold War underwent a subtle change. Rather than the clearly defined Eastern and Western Blocs of the earlier years, the conflict spread out to many countries and generalized to become more of a war against nuclear weapons, with no clearly defined superpower leaders. This gave it an elusive quality that made it seem too nebulous to stop. A sense of futility and the inevitability of wa
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