“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”
![“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far…” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a20/oliver-stone-1812_american-life_if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-un_2148721.jpg)
![“Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.” quote by Chris Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42d/chris-hayes-2208_crisis_because-we-the-usa-are-so-powerful-our-f_2960043.jpg)
