Wed 26 Aug 2020, 16:23
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This reminds me, back when I was in the Army in the Eighties, we were having a lesson in company-level tactics, and the Captain giving the lesson kept referring to the Enemy advancing from the East in the examples he showed on the overhead projector.
Now, back in this day in Sweden, this was a bit controversial — the far Left wasn't too keen on acknowledging that the Soviet Union presented any threat; many of the "useful idiots" kept proclaiming that West was at least as likely to invade us as our comrades in the East, who of course would only do so to protect us from Imperialist aggression.
And the Communists being a not insignificant political force at the time, and ostensibly wanting to not "endanger our relations with foreign powers", the Soviet threat was never made explicit below a certain level in training. It was often implicit — very implicit — but as even some career officers themselves actually believed in the tripe, a certain level of semi-ambiguity was often maintained. ~ish.
And indeed, right enough, after a while one of the conscripts in the class piped up and said, "but Captain, couldn't the Enemy just as well advance from the West?"
The Captain fell silent, wrinkled his brow, and looked hard at the map he was currently projecting.
After a while he nodded and said, "well, yes, I suppose the Russians could go around..."
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You had to be there.
Before you use the word "XENOMORPH" again, you should read this article through:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/aliens-throwaway-line-confusion
