https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJ7GbxWGoM
interesting old official film explaining the procedure for transiting East Germany by road in order to reach West Berlin.
Cold war video, transit to West Berlin.
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Cold war video, transit to West Berlin.
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All very interesting. I never went to the Eastern bloc when Communism was around. A good day when that system was gone from Europe. Unfortunately a lot of people educated in the 1960s thought it was OK and the UK is paying the price for this to this day.
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What ! do you mean that "peace studies" was russian/communist propaganda, surely not !BritDownUnder wrote: ↑04 Nov 2024, 05:04 All very interesting. I never went to the Eastern bloc when Communism was around. A good day when that system was gone from Europe. Unfortunately a lot of people educated in the 1960s thought it was OK and the UK is paying the price for this to this day.
Or even that "democratic" was code for communist dictatorship as in GDR or German democratic republic, meaning the bit under russian control.
At school in peace studies I enquired as to the purpose of the berlin wall "it it to keep them in, or to keep us out ?" The teacher explained that it was a barrier to keep out the fascists, that being the term applied to the West. Otherwise the workers paradise would be overrun by refugees from the fascist nations.
It seems that russia is STILL fighting for peace and democracy by sending incendiary bombs to the fascists, and by liberating Ukraine from fascists.
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Yes the words "Anti-fascist Protection Barrier" (or their German equivalents) name for the Iron Curtain or Inner German Border still ring through the ages.
Now we have special military operations, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and quite a few other cliched names.
Now we have special military operations, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and quite a few other cliched names.
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