1Introduction
12Myth 11: Katyn, the Perfect Crime: Only the USSR Massacred Polish Officers
2Myth 1: The Myth of the Abrupt End: The Cold War Ended with the Implosion of the USSR
13Myth 12: The Theft of the Atomic Secret: Soviets Had No Clue Without US Spies
3Myth 2: Reagan the Lone Victor: Only America Defeated Communism
14Myth 13: Bipolar to the Extreme: Cold War = USA vs USSR, Period
4Myth 3: The Crystal-Clear Enemy: The USA Always Knew Who the Adversary Was
15Myth 14: The Berlin Wall, Anti-West Barrier: To Prevent Allies from Entering
5Myth 4: The Single Strategy: Containment Won the Cold War Alone
16Myth 15: The Space Race, Pure Military Duel: Sputnik = Immediate Orbital Bomb
6Myth 5: On the Brink: We Avoided WW3 Dozens of Times
17Myth 16: Cuban Missile Crisis: Hero Kennedy vs Mad Khrushchev
7Myth 6: Pepsi, the Unexpected Ally: The American Drink Toppled the USSR
18Myth 17: McCarthy, the Justified Witch Hunter: Thousands of Red Spies Exposed
8Myth 7: The Gulags, the Great Slaughterhouse: 30-50 Million Dead in Soviet Camps
19Myth 18: Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Clean Victories or Defeats
9Myth 8: The Holodomor, Planned Genocide: Stalin Starved Ukraine to Punish
20Myth 19: Détente, Sign of Weakness: The 1970s Were an Illusory Peace
10Myth 9: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Eternal Hitler-Stalin Alliance
21Myth 20: Eternal Peace: End of the Cold War = End of Global Conflicts
11Myth 10: Lenin's Prophecy: He Predicted Stalin Would Be a Tyrant
