Socialism in Venezuela has made illiteracy a thing of the past

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As far as Scandanavia, they defense was paid for by the US for 50 years, and they are smaller nations with different immigration issues, or used to be different, and are not analogous.

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Im from Sweden, which lies in Scandanavia.
US hasn't paid a dime for our defence. ever.
Your cold war arms-race sure made us invest loads of money in our military and defence industry though.

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You think Stalin would have left you alone without the US deterrant?

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We will never know, will we? If the US had not been a player in this game, soviet would also have acted differently. Part of the way soviet acted was in response to what USA did, and the threat it posed to them. I cannot imagine a senario where US would not interfere, since thats all they did the last 50yrs.Sweden had before the collapse of soviet union compulsory military service between 1-2 years for all males above 19yes old. That is about 1.5 million fit soldiers during war, and the world's 4th largest airforce. If anything it had propably cost soviet too much to invade.Soviet tried to take finland during WW2, but failed. Finland is a much smaller country. Maybe they could have taken us both, but i dont think so.But who knows?