/r/coldwar
A place for discussion about the Cold War (ca. 1947–1991), its history and consequences on today's world.
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So, the concept is simple: people join and they become citizens of every country. (They can go to any other)
They elect a president/leader, and then that leader/president can choose actions such as sending funds to another country.
What do you think ?
When the Cuban missile crisis end and Castro was bloody livid at Khrushchev and trashed his own office, what was the insult he say while doing so?
I recently read Man Without a Face. It is a biography of Markus Wolf who was the spy chief for East Germany. He created a team of male "Romeos" whose job was to honeypot West Germany women. In the book, he mentioned about sending a team of Romeos to the US in the 80s and it was a complete failure. He said a lot of his Romeos ended up confessing to their target that they were spies. He didn't elaborate much on that except that American women were very difficult to honeypot. Does anybody have more insight about that? Thanks
need help identifying this artwork shown in the docuseries. i believe this is a depiction of dead bodies piling up in a river after the bombing of hiroshima.
I saw this guy a few months ago on socials after he hit up Albo at a press conference asking about a hidden government report on a Cold War traitor.
He's uploaded this, and spoiler alert - the “Secret Military Base” is Woomera 🤣
A cool listen about Woomera’s history and what the locals know of its secrets.
I have made a video about how ideological subversion is destroying the west, by destructive ideologies that might appear new or trendy or even benevolent, but at their core there are Marxism/Leninism/Communism/Socialism in nature.
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--- 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion. U.S. backed guerrillas invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed miserably.
--- 1975: The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, essentially ending the Cambodian Civil War. The horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime began.
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I was a Pershing missile technician. Started with Pershing 1a then moved to Pershing II. Now I am an amateur historian.
Hi,
i have been writing an essay as part of my history class at school and earlier in the year i must have seen a source talk about Khrushchev wanting to isolate the USSR from the rest of the world, however I'm looking over it now and not only would it make more sense for the opposite to be true given the soviets interest in Cuba, but also I'm seeing more things say that Khrushchev ended isolationism after the death of Stalin, rather than want it. so i am quite confused and don't know whether to believe whatever i saw a few months back or what I'm seeing now
i hope this all makes sense, any help would be greatly appreciated
Evening folks,
I always wondered: when the Soviets implemented the West-Berlin blockade, weren’t there any reasonable efforts by the soviets to halt the air-bridge?
The West was flying thousands of planes over Soviet terrain so it seems hard to just simply let it happen, from a Soviet perspective.
Of course i realise that shooting down these planes didn’t happen due to fear for all-out war
We received this for service in West Berlin in the 80s. I didn't know it existed until I got it. My grandfather's war stretched on for so long. He did make further east than I did, under more extreme circumstances.
I was watching the Netflix documentary about the Cold War, I had to rewind on a frame that I was almost certain I saw Shoigu at on of the terror attacks. Has to be his right?
This day in history, April 7 --- 1948: World Health Organization (an agency of the United Nations) was formally created. --- 1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a news conference wherein he referred to the imminent fall of French Indochina as: “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So, you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.” That is the domino theory of communism. --- Please listen to my podcast, History Analyzed, on all podcast apps. --- link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yoHz9s9JPV51WxsQMWz0d --- link to Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-analyzed/id1632161929
I’m watching an old 1980s British military police video about how to transit from West Germany to West Berlin via the autobahn, and the video makes several references to only recognizing or cooperating/interacting with Soviet military personnel, and if any East German personnel try to interact with you to demand Soviet personnel as Soviet authority is the only one recognized. Why was this?
Hi! Sorry if there's any formatting errors, this is my first post here.
I'm looking for information on BRIXMIS licence plates, having just inherited one from my grandfather, and I'd be grateful for any information. The licence plate is flat metal, with a Union Jack in the right top corner and cyrillic text underneath that read something about the British mission to the Soviet Union when I google translated it, and has a large spray paint stencil "2" on its left side.
Edit: I've linked an image of the licence plate here because for some reason I couldn't paste it in to the post directly.
This day in history, April 5 --- 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying on the United States on behalf of the Soviet Union. They were executed on June 19, 1953. --- Please listen to my podcast, History Analyzed, on all podcast apps. --- link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yoHz9s9JPV51WxsQMWz0d --- link to Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-analyzed/id1632161929
Hello, I just found this East German helmet on Ebay, the seller is from Kiel, Germany and he said that this helmet was the M83 Stahlhelm made for exportation. I can't find anything about this helmet on Google, this helmet looks like a SSH68 steel pot with an East German M56 liner system. If you know, please give me the informations for this helmet. Thank You!