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klaasm67.bsky.social
Wise words from the fifties. Poster to promote the Marshall plan in Europe (1950). #coldwarhist
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
coldwarpod.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE - #Bombs, #Berlin & #Peacekeeping: A #Para's #ColdWar Story

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#skystorians #coldwarhist #britisharmy
January 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
peterajohnston.bsky.social
Well this is a very exciting thing to drop onto the doormat today #ColdWarHist
January 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
rennig73.bsky.social
August 1968 - Bernauer Strasse
#berlin #berlinwall #ddr #coldwarhist
Photo: Goetze
October 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM
rennig73.bsky.social
April 1969
#berlin #berlinwall #coldwarhist #ddr
Photo: Goetze
October 15, 2023 at 10:40 AM
peterajohnston.bsky.social
Proud I've at last managed to fit the phrase, "Ich habe ein kleine Panzer, kann ich parken hier, bitte?" into an academic article that I'm currently writing on the British-German relationship during the Cold War #amwriting #milhistsky #ColdWarHist
April 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
#Photo of West Berliners waving to relatives in East Berlin, across the Berlin Wall, on Christmas Day in 1961 #coldwarhist #berlin #germany #coldwar
A black and white photograph. A man and a woman in West Berlin stand on top of a VW car, parked a short distance from the Berlin Wall. Light snow lies on the ground. They are waving to their relatives (unseen) on the other side of the wall in East Berlin.
December 24, 2024 at 10:48 AM
leroylynch.bsky.social
Valentina Gargarina: the woman who stayed on Earth
zoharesque.blogspot.com/2025/04/vale... by @drspacejunk.bsky.social #coldwarhist
Valentina Gargarina: the woman who stayed on Earth
Every year on April 12 the world celebrates Yuri's Night , or the I nternational Day of Human Spaceflight. The spotlight is on Yuri Gagarin...
zoharesque.blogspot.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
rennig73.bsky.social
Oct 1962 - Heidelberger/ Elsenstrasse
Photo: Landesarchiv Berlin/ Schutz Gert
#ddr #berlinwall #coldwarhist
October 14, 2023 at 1:20 PM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism #coldwarhist #coldwar #books #poland

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
coldwar.org.uk
BBC Archive has shared an excerpt from 'Did You See...?' (1984) on nuclear horror film Threads. Features interviews with director Mick Jackson and writer Barry Hines, plus discussions with military strategiests, CND and others. Well worth a look. #coldwarhist #coldwar www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJj...
1984: The FALLOUT From THREADS | Did You See? | Classic TV Review | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
coldwar.org.uk
In 1981, a civil servant at the Home Office identified a surprising group who'd thrive after nuclear war: psychopaths. Their immunity from emotion led government officials to briefly consider them for post-apocalyptic leadership roles. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fNxw7k #coldwarhist #nuclearwar
The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
buff.ly
December 2, 2024 at 2:06 PM
klausherdepe.bsky.social
#OTD 27.1.1973: Friedensabkommen für Vietnam besiegelt die Niederlage der USA

#Stichtag #ColdWarHist #History #Podcast

www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/der-...
Podcast: 27.1.1973: Friedensabkommen für Vietnam
Heute vor 50 Jahren wurde in Paris das "Abkommen über die Beendigung des Krieges und die Wiederherstellung des Friedens in Vietnam" unterzeichnet.
www.ardaudiothek.de
January 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
coldwar.org.uk
A few years ago, I came across these pics of an ROC Post under construction at Hog's Back in Surrey. These bunkers played a crucial role in the UK's civil defence strategy, but it's rare to see one being built. More images on the blog: coldwar.org.uk/building-a-b... #coldwarhist #nuclearwar #bunkers
A man in a uniform stands on top of a half-completed Royal Observer Corps monitoring post bunker. He's leaning against the ventilation shaft, which is yet to be buried. There's excavated earth and chalk all around. The photo looks to be from the early 1960s.
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
‘Seventy-seven years later, we still don't have final clarity on the death of Jan Masaryk, which came as Communist parties seized power in Czechoslovakia and across Central and Eastern Europe’ #czechoslovakia #coldwar #coldwarhist

www.rferl.org/amp/czech-mu...
A Czech Cold War Cold Case Is Now A Murder Investigation
www.rferl.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
leroylynch.bsky.social
Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews Joseph Kellner's book "The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse" on late period Soviet weirdness, including astrology, Krishna consciousness, the Vissarion sect and Anatoly Fomenko’s ‘New Chronology’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #coldwarhist
Sheila Fitzpatrick · Apocalypse Forgotten: Late Soviet Spiritualism
The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 10, 2026 at 7:06 AM
peterajohnston.bsky.social
It's publication day and *open access* on this fantastic collection of scholarship that I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to. My chapter is on British Forces Germany and their varied presence and presentation in UK museums #ColdWarHist

www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Mus...
Cold War Museology
Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology.  Bringing the mo...
www.routledge.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:16 AM
leroylynch.bsky.social
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.
www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie... #coldwarhist
Assata Shakur, fugitive Black liberation activist, dies in Cuba aged 78
A member of the Black Panther Party, Shakur escaped from a US prison in 1979, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer. She was given political asylum in Cuba.
www.lemonde.fr
September 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
coldwarpod.bsky.social
LATEST EPISODE - An #Australian #Vietnamwar #veteran shares his story.

⬇️⬇️Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode367
#coldwarhist #coldwar
From Sydney to the Vietnam War: An Australian Soldier’s Cold War Journey
John Brooker is a remarkable Australian veteran who shared his journey from the streets of Sydney, Australia to the battlefields of Vietnam.John Brooker is a remarkable Australian veteran
coldwarconversations.com
September 28, 2024 at 8:37 AM
leroylynch.bsky.social
The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades.
The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion.
english.elpais.com/science-tech... #coldwarhist
The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades
The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion
english.elpais.com
March 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
A plea: does anyone here have access to the most recent issues of the Journal of Modern History? My institutional access only goes up to 2019, and there’s an article from 2023 that I could really do with reading… #skystorians #historians #coldwarhist
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
mattpotteruk.bsky.social
This is a fascinating story.

Why dozens of WW2 Hurricane fighters have been found, stripped and buried in a forested ravine near Kyiv.

#coldwarhist #aviation #urbanexploration #history

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65955365
Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv
London sent the Hawker Hurricanes to the Soviet Union to help them fight against Nazi Germany.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2023 at 10:46 AM
bill-n1vux.bsky.social
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social , if you haven't seen this CAN 🇨🇦nukeporn on the badsite 🐦🔥 twitter.com/coldwaruk/st...
Nuclear War in the UK on X: "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 https://t.co/CTUzkhpmDa" / X
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 https://t.co/CTUzkhpmDa
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May 4, 2024 at 11:59 AM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
Mystery Photos Shed Light On Romania's 1989 Revolution:

www.rferl.org/a/mystery-ph...

#coldwar #coldwarhist #romania #photos
Mystery Photos Shed Light On Romania's 1989 Revolution
A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive capture pitched battles in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago.
www.rferl.org
December 28, 2024 at 1:51 PM
kellyhignett.bsky.social
Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’ #bulgaria #coldwarhist

balkaninsight.com/2025/01/10/e...
Exhibition Shines Light on Bulgaria’s Forgotten Communist-Era ‘Labour Troops’
An exhibition in Sofia of Garo Keshishian's black-and-white photos of communist-era compulsory labour units delves into a little-remembered aspect of Bulgaria's repressive past.
balkaninsight.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM