April 1969
#berlin #berlin wall #coldwarhist #ddr
Photo: Goetze

#ColdWar 'Changing Sectors', #American / #Soviet sector border, January 1968, #Berlin #GDR #DDR #coldwarhist #capitalism #Communism #Socialism o #Socialism #Communists #socialist #History

Bottled beer not affected by fallout – official. (Daily Express, 18 Apr 1958) #coldwarhist #nuclearwar #beer

Nuclear war in Canada! Here's some extracts from Survival in Likely Target Areas, part of Canada's early 1960s Blueprint for Survival series. The illustrations are rather more dramatic than other countries' efforts. Happy Friday! #coldwarhist #nuclearwar

Let’s drive an old Dutch centurion tank! The Centurion was a culmination of all the design and combat lessons learned by British tank designers during World War II in terms of protection, mobility, and firepower. The Netherlands had 591 of these steel monsters. #coldwarhist

Putin tells people in the West: 'Russia is not your enemy' #SovietUnion #ColdWarHist #Perestroika #TheEarthCharter #antiusa #communists

Simulated nuclear attack on Dunfermline, Fife. (Edinburgh Evening News, 17 Aug 1957) #coldwarhist #nuclearwar

Our 'Cold War, Korea and Vietnam' seminar met for the first time at the newly re-opened USS Recruit in Liberty Station on Sunday afternoon. The ship was known by sailors at the Naval Training Center as the “USS Neversail.” #coldwarhist #TeacherEducation #vietnamwar

Tatjana Besson of the East German punk band “Die Firma”. Tatjana was a Stasi informer with the code name Kim.😳 #coldwarhist

TIL you could buy your own (cardboard) Polaris nuclear submarine in the sixties 🥹 misternizz.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/my-… #coldwar #coldwar history #coldwar hist #submarines #subtweet

#OTD 1963: H.A.R. 'Kim' Philby, former SIS ( #MI6 ) officer, #KGB agent and Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist, defects to the Soviet Union. #coldwarhist

August 1968 - Bernauer Strasse
#berlin #berlin wall #ddr #coldwarhist
Photo: Goetze

I’m reading David McCullough’s Truman bio & came across a funny little Churchill moment—this one about drinking. It occurred as Churchill was traveling by train with Truman & his entourage to Fulton, MO to deliver his famous “Iron Curtain” speech. Andreas Koureas 🇬🇧 #ColdWarHist

With not much action since the Korean War, the absurd amount of medals the North Korean generals wear had puzzled me. I just learned they also wear the medals of their fathers and grandfathers. USSR also influenced them—I added Zhukov to this for comparison. #ColdWarHist #WWII

'To start a war with anything less than this would be folly' 🤔 (Randolph Churchill writing in the Daily Express, 16 Dec 1957) #coldwarhist

If Russia should win, many American men would be sterilized. How about that? #coldwarhist

#OTD 1976: Soviet pilot Lt Viktor Belenko lands his MIG-25 fighter jet in Japan and asks for asylum in the United States. #coldwarhist

A B-47E Stratojet parked at #RAF Greenham Common on Sept 29 1963. #USAF #Newbury #ColdWar #ColdWar Hist #Boeing

Find out the story at: greenhamcommon.org.uk

Excited to have 2 more military history articles coming out in several print magazines soon. One is on a Cold War battle and the other is on Byzantium. I love diversity!
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