Russians -- Sting

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats In the rhetorical speeches of
the Soviets  Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you I don't subscribe to this
point of view  It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly in common sense  On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology  Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you  I hope the Russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent  To put the words in the mouth of
the President  There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie that we don't believe anymore  Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view  Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

We share the same biology  Regardless of ideology  What might save us,
me, and you  Is if the Russians love their children too                           (sing365) 

Sting wrote this during the Cold War, a tense time when Russia and the United States felt threatened by the nuclear missiles they had pointed at each other. Sting's lyrics rhetorically ask if Russians love their children too, and question why the Russians and the Americans would participate in the Cold War.                                                                       (songfacts) 


    Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs  



                

The Cold War (approx. 1945–1991) was a continuing state of political and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by theUnited States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, maintaining these as satellite states. The post-war recovery of Western Europe was facilitated by the United States' Marshall Plan, while the Soviet Union, wary of the conditions attached, declined and set up COMECON with its Eastern allies. The United States forged NATO, a military alliance using containment of communism as a main strategy through the Truman Doctrine, in 1949, while the Soviet bloc formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Some countries aligned with either of the two powers, whilst others chose to remain neutral with the Non-Aligned Movement.

The Cold War was so named as it never featured direct military action, since both sides possessed nuclear weapons, and because their use would probably guarantee their mutual assured destruction. Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension which could have led to war. The most tense involved the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), and the Able Archer 83 NATO exercises in November 1983. The conflict was instead expressed through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states, espionage, propaganda, conventional and nuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race. The US and USSR fought proxy wars of various types: in Latin America and Southeast Asia, the USSR assisted and helped foster communist revolutions, opposed by several Western countries and their regional allies; some they attempted to roll back through subversion and warfare, with mixed results. To alleviate the risk of a potential nuclear war, both sides sought détente in the 1970s to relieve political tensions.                                                                                                  (wikipedia)