Why are you conflating what I'm saying about the KGB/Soviets with the Russia of today which has abandoned what they were doing? While those within the US may have feared the Soviet Union (and given what I've pointed out, probably should have been), the peoples of the US now are generally not worried about Russia in my opinion, nor should they be given that Russia is now going in a better direction generally than the west. The idea that Americans are afraid of Russia is a put-on by leftist politicians grasping at straws and their cohorts within the leftist dinosaur corporate media and most out there just aren't buying it. I myself sometimes wonder if I'd rather live in Russia than where I do. Your comment "the fact that the USSR and US govs actually strive for the same thing population-wise — total control and propaganda" is exactly what I'm saying; where do you think those tactics came from? Having experienced it first hand, the US really is the land of the free but it's shriveling up for various reasons and those with the collective power to help the world might soon find that ability lost if they let it slip from their grasps; exactly as forewarned in the nation's founding documents.