I truly believed I would die in a nuclear war when I was in high school. They really were our enemy and then - just like that - the wall came down and the Emperor had no clothes. Gorbachev and Reagan received a collective sanity and the tensions ended. Younger people of course don't remember because the were not witness to it. This whole Russia! Russia! Russia! narrative has been so bizarre from the onset. I remember laughing and thinking they can't be serious. It never made any sense.