&quot;Reagan wasn&#x27;t afraid to correctly refer to the Soviet Union as an &quot;Evil Empire&quot;&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think that affected inter-country morale long-term. What mattered is what happens inside, what we do to each other, how we live. That&#x27;s true even with immense value that soviet mentality always gave to outside views on it.<p>&quot;our invasion of Grenada was a massive shock&quot;<p>I was born in 1985, ostensibly, but I&#x27;ve never heard of this and don&#x27;t even know where that Grenada is.<p>Frankly, what you wrote doesn&#x27;t sound very important to the issue.