TIL that the Soviet Union deliberately spread a lie that HIV/AIDS was a biological weapon created by the US.

Here's the Wikipedia article about this disinformation campaign.

This is utterly reprehensible. Spreading a lie like this about a disease as dangerous as HIV/AIDS almost certainly would have endangered and even contributed to the deaths of thousands of people.

And it was just so that the Soviet Union could make the US look bad. Fuck the Soviet Union.