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Cato #420, fall of the Wall

Wall went up when I was 9. I knew it was a prison wall. A lesson about Communism learned for life.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jun 2
Subjects: Cold War, Communism, prison

Random recollection...

There was that day -- August 1991? -- when Gorbachev,who had been blocked by the Old Guard, returned to Moscow -- the end of the Soviet Union.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jun 2
Subjects: Cold War, personal history

Hello. I'm home and ought to be in bed, but I'm here instead.

Is the odoriferousness from the fartulance cleared away? Or was that the termite bomb?

--❣--

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Jun 2
Subjects: Cold War

Taiwan's Cold War legacy

On Vulcan we have a saying, "Only Nixon could sell out China."

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Mar 30
Subjects: Cold War, Richard Nixon, SCoaMF, Star Trek

Mr Macca Bean: We used to make joke about the Poles.
We owe them years worth of apologies....

Read all… Subjects: added on 2016 Feb 17
Subjects: Cold War, humor

artisanal 'ette: POLISH SOCCER FANS UNFURL HUGE BANNER OPPOSING ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE!!! ...
http://bit.ly/1XP44jD ...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Nov 4
Subjects: Cold War, Islam

Vertov: Iron Curtain speech.

Riiight!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2015 Oct 6
Subjects: Cold War, Missouri, Winston Churchill

"Well, the upside is that they are beautiful planes..."

Heh. Why I like this smart military blog!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Nov 15
Subjects: Cold War, Russia

In 1967, the U.S. Coast Guard found a crate containing seven inflated yellow balloons floating off the coast of Florida.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Oct 11
Subjects: Cold War
Burt senses danger
Radical Incline

If it's duck and cover, why did they use a turtle? The wisdom of Civil Defense and the inadequacy of modern desks.

Text, Video by Others added on 2014 May 23
Subjects: survival, civilization, Cold War, threat
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"Survived both Hitler and the Hungarian communists. Went through some tough personal situations here...."

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 10
Subjects: Cold War, Jewish, mercy, soul, WW2
Communism. It's for the cool kids!
Radical Incline

20th Century's main cause of death & continuing. Some folks still don't get it.

Text added on 2013 Nov 20
Subjects: liberty, Viet Nam, North Korea, Communism, Cold War
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[Reagan] was both inspiring, and comforting, and growing up as a child in the 80s, I felt very safe knowing he was our President. - Secret Squirrel

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 12
Subjects: Cold War, Ronald Reagan

The figure I remember was nineteen minutes. Time it takes an ICBM to get from USSR to USA.

"We thought we'd be blown away any day." Yeah. Good times, good times. :/

Read all… Subjects: added on 2012 Jul 11
Subjects: Cold War, nuclear