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Originally Posted by Spartan198
And because the Soviets knew that even if they managed to sweep aside the armed forces without being nuked into oblivion, there were still thousands of police departments and millions of private gun owners ready and willing to fight the good fight. Our Second Amendment was one of the things that scared them the most.
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I kind of doubt that. During the Cold War, the USSR clamped down upon a number of armed uprisings in Eastern Europe without too much difficulty. Afghanistan was another matter, but even then, the Mujahideen didn't start to make serious headway until we gave them Chinese-made weaponry and Stinger missiles in huge numbers (which is something we still regret to this day). And Americans, much like Eastern Europeans, aren't nearly as tough as the Pashtun in Afghanistan. I don't think a bunch of McDonalds-eating hillbillies living in trailers with their guns presents much of an insurgency challenge.
Then there's the geographic matter. The United States is hard to invade by virtue of the fact that it's in North America (this, we often forget, is the biggest reason why America has almost never faced invaders on its shores). A "Red Dawn" situation involving the Soviets' Latin American allies would be possible, but only if it were done through Mexico, and that wasn't going to happen.