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'Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present'. Blog exploring the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe written by @kellyhignett
Joined June 2009
Please nominate @ColdWarPod in the Discover Pods Awards. Podcast Name: Cold War Conversations Podcast Website: https://t.co/U34egrT5fR Podcast Category: History Use the link below to nominate us. Many thanks! https://t.co/pgHWqGUOfl
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A very interesting, moving and reflective #longread by Martin Pollack in today’s @guardian - “My family and other Nazis”
theguardian.com
The long read: My father did terrible things during the second world war, and my other relatives were equally unrepentant. But it wasn’t until I was in my late 50s that I started to confront this...
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Communist-era apartment blocks dominate Eastern Europe – now they're being transformed https://t.co/R86A1r56lY via @BBC_Future
bbc.com
The crumbling communist-built apartment blocks of Central and Eastern Europe are in a race to adapt for the climate change era.
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Football in Stalinist Albania: ‘The only 90 minutes when people could be themselves’ https://t.co/NcgkWuILGD
#albania #coldwar #coldwarhist #football
theguardian.com
Fans started their preparations four days before games and would release pigeons to celebrate goals, this book extract reveals
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Witness History: East Germany’s Coffee from Vietnam: https://t.co/YWUSbu1CB9
#eastgermany #vietnam #coldwar #coffee
bbc.co.uk
A thirst for caffeine led to an unusual global collaboration in the 1980s
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Exploring the echoes of communism in contemporary Bucharest https://t.co/RBfjxHXmAQ
#romania #bucharest #coldwar #coldwarhist
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Supreme Commander Tito in Jajce, the morning after he was awarded the rank of "Marshal of Yugoslavia" by the AVNOJ Assembly acting on a motion of recommendation from the Slovene delegation headed by Josip Vidmar - November 30th, 1943.
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20 July 1966: Karl-Marx-Stadt city centre, which had received over 150 million GDR marks for new buildings and infrastructure (via Bundesarchiv)
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Stunning descriptions of the #coldwar #revolutions in #Romania and #Czechoslovakia with @alittl Listen here ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/eZ5O3HOOF7
@braynework @Jac_Hayden @WhitlamsBerlin @markbakerprague @thevieweast @JohnSimpsonNews @CzechCentreLnd @SHAFRhistorians @ColdWarRecords
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✊ Federal and state governments commemorate deadly GDR uprising Events are taking place across Berlin commemorating those who died in a series of violent uprisings against GDR-rule in 1953. #17june1953 #gdr #berlin
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Cold War Conversations: “There’s nothing like hearing history from somebody who was there” My interview in @theberlinermag
@WhitlamsBerlin @DDROnline @GermanAtPompey @AgataFijalkow @thevieweast @MClaudeHawkes @MauraMcC127 @craig_stennett
https://t.co/xgqKRtvOYu
the-berliner.com
In the podcast 'Cold War Conversations' host Ian Sanders takes an intimate look at Cold War history - one poignant story at a time.
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Jun 16 1953 – 300 building workers walk out on strike against pay cuts and quotas. Ignites the East German Uprising the following day.
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📅 On 17 June 1953, the East Germany Uprising began, marking a major protest against the policies of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the government as a whole. 📰 Read more here: https://t.co/VzvdDMniqZ
#OnThisDay #GermanHistory #20thCenturyHistory
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Stamp issued in Germany in 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 17 June 1953 uprising in the GDR
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📅 On 14 May 1955 the Warsaw Pact was signed in Warsaw. 📜 The Pact was a Soviet Union's reaction to accession of West Germany to NATO. It sanctioned subordination of the Eastern Bloc countries and their armies to the Soviet Union. #OnThisDay #20thCenturyHistory
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Red tape: Rosamund Johnston digs into Czechoslovak Radio under communism: https://t.co/afEep5d6af
#czechoslovakia #radio #coldwarhist #coldwar #media
english.radio.cz
Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969 looks at broadcasting in, and to, the country between the end of the war and the aftermath of the 1968 invasion.
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Defendants portraits shed light on political trials in Communist Albania: https://t.co/EhCl8nAMxu
#albania #coldwarhist
balkaninsight.com
An exhibition of 150 photographs of ‘enemies of the state’ who were prosecuted for political reasons at trials held in cinemas offers a fresh insight into the injustices of Communist-era Albania.
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The Photographer Who Broke Into Communist Hungary's Prison System https://t.co/BFSZ5gNCMn
#hungary #coldwarhist
rferl.org
After a career documenting the fringes of communist Hungarian society, photojournalist Tamas Urban is slowly releasing a wealth of images to the public that include photos capturing the violence and...
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