Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Documentary: "Germany and the Cold War" (two parts).

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    It's another exemplary two-part Deutsche Welle documentary, focusing on the Cold War as experienced in the two German states that a...
Friday, April 10, 2020

"America won the cold war. What went wrong?"

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Tear down the (Berlin) wall, 1991. The writer Andrew Bacevich: "Globalisation was meant to create wealth, but many Americans comp...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

"Germany’s Iron Curtain is now the Green Belt, but turning the old border into a haven for wildlife has taken much more than just letting it be."

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An absolutely fascinating outcome. The Green Curtain , by Andrew Curry ( Atlas Obscura ) Germany’s Iron Curtain is now the Green Belt, ...
Monday, September 03, 2018

"Lithuania's barking-mad Soviet-era theme park has barking dogs and barking ex-KGB," but ironically, no place to walk your dog.

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Tanned, rested and ready, my masterpiece development plan is ready to be TIFFed: The Open Air Museum of Ignorance, Superstition and Backwar...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Choking on it: "What Caused the United States’ Decline?"

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As a useful preface, it helps to know that I consider American "exceptionalism" to be sheer idiocy.  Ironically, former forei...
Friday, January 12, 2018

NAC THROUGH THE BEERS: Spies, or a 2012 column about the Cold War and a fine motion picture.

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Seeing as we have time to waste today while awaiting the inevitable White Death (no, I mean the snow ), an idle glance at my daily output...
Monday, December 25, 2017

An excellent four-part documentary film about recent Russian history called Moscow's Empire.

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It has been only 26 years since the Soviet Union dissolved, which is a blip in the overall timeline of history. Absent context, little can b...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Two documentaries about Dean Reed (who?) provide long-lost Cold War time capsules.

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Particularly in the early days after the East Bloc imploded, visiting westerners would scratch their heads at any local mention of Dean R...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Peculiar institutions: Eisenhower channeled the evangelists' prayer breakfast, according to Cold War logic. New Albany just borrowed the idea, which should be modified.

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"His legacy is already there." -- Lee Corso That's right. In the beginning, a New Albanian was inspired to hold a mayora...
Monday, September 04, 2017

A new book: Gorbachev: His Life and Times, by William Taubman.

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Just before the deluge. I'll never cease to be fascinated by this era. My European travels during the decade of the 1980s began i...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Cuba! Africa! Revolution!

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Che Guevara's foray into the Congo in 1965 ended badly, but Fidel Castro was playing a long game, and Cuba's adventures in Afr...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago today.

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If you're new to the blog, note only that my first visit to the city of Berlin came in the summer of 1989, during which I was part of...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Swords into ploughshares ... and spokes.

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Am I going to get back into bicycling some day? For a very long time, it was a "bucket list" item to bike from Scandinavia to the ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

ON THE AVENUES: Spies.

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ON THE AVENUES: Spies. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. The Cold War ended … when? Was it 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down ...