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The Cold War

cabbles
cabbles Posts: 15,255
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Yep, it's definitely close season, all sorts of topics up for discussion over the summer. I've recently started listening to a radio 4 podcast series called Cold War: Stories from the big freeze. Basically, they take a story from a number of countries affected by the cold war and how communism spread. I knew of the cold war from the fall of the berlin wall and Gorbachev etc from when I was young, but some of the stories they cover are very harrowing.

The Chinese cultural revolution sounded particularly brutal.

It's very good listening and I'm learning a lot. Be keen to hear from any other lifers who are interested in this subject

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Henry Jnr studied it at A level.

    That's right old people, your lives are literally now history.

    I do know someone who held back the Third Soviet Shock Army by himself but he doesn't like to talk about it (much)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Always had an interest in this period especially where films are concerned. I love Len Deighton's Harry Palmer trilogy. Others worthy of note are 3 (unconnected) Paul Newman films: The Prize, Torn Curtain and The Mackintosh Man.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Mrs Plum had to live through the cultural Revolution.
    It was a very damaging time indeed.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    JessieAddick said:

    I'm interested. But I can't make any comments. :wink:

    the one on the cultural revolution was nuts. They spoke to this chap who was the son of a teacher and his dad was literally hounded to death by members of the red party. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    seth plum said:

    Mrs Plum had to live through the cultural Revolution.
    It was a very damaging time indeed.

    That’s nothing, @Oggy Red had to live through the industrial revolution
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited June 2018
    This is well worth a watch cabbies.



    Same people as made The World at War. They talk to some incredibly influential people from that time - Bush Snr, Castro, Gorbachev, and Kissinger to name a few.

    I will check out the podcast. Seems interesting too.

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