Cold War
Memories of a Jewish American red diaper baby
August 14, 2019Memories are powerful. Certainly they inform who we are, but they can be tricksters.
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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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Declassified Cold War nuclear plans: U.S. would have blown up half the world
May 30, 2019The Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe would have been wiped from the map, with the rest of the world trapped in nuclear winter.
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George H.W. Bush, dirty tricks, and regime change in nuclear-free Palau
January 4, 2019To find out who commits a crime, see who benefits from it.
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