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Jun 14, 2023

The frigid origin of the Iron Curtain

America faced a crucial test of its logistics and marked a turning point in the Cold War and its desire to see the Iron Curtain pulled down.

Jun 14, 2023

Jan 10, 2023

The Peacekeeper Rail Garrison’s forgotten mission

Ever heard of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison? Even if you lived through the Cold War, you might not know about…

Jan 10, 2023

BYSharon Brandwein

Aug 14, 2022

5 things you didn’t know about the Berlin Wall

This week in history, East German soldiers closed the borders between East and West Berlin. What started as a makeshift wall in 1961, pieced together with barbed wire, soldiers and tanks, eventually morphed into a 15-foot high symbol of division tha…

BYSharon Brandwein

Aug 14, 2022

BYBethaney Phillips

Jul 9, 2022

How the fall of the Berlin Wall affected techno music

Berlin is known as the techno music capital of the world. Much to the chagrin of Detroit, where the style…

BYBethaney Phillips

Jul 9, 2022

BYUncle Walkie

May 18, 2023

Walking on the grass and 4 other things that almost made the US lose the Cold War

Government documents have been declassified that reveal these 5 events almost made the U.S. lose the Cold War.

BYUncle Walkie

May 18, 2023

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 26, 2021

How US special-operations forces helped the US military win its first post-Cold War victory

As the threat from the Soviet Union declined in the early 1990s, a new challenge for the US arose in…

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 26, 2021

Feb 5, 2021

Top-tier special operators of the Cold War worry about modern ‘soft skills’

As the shadow operators of the Cold War reveal more and more about their formerly classified service, they’ve highlighted the wide set of skills necessary for finding success as they stared into the eyes of one of the greatest adversaries the U.S. …

Feb 5, 2021

Apr 29, 2020

The top-secret plan to cripple Berlin during a Soviet invasion

During the Cold War, an Army Special Forces unit was tasked with sabotaging Soviet infrastructure and crippling an invasion force to buy NATO time should war break out. The mission was so secret that the entire thing was almost forgotten — until a…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

A communist soldier made a daring escape through the Berlin Wall in an APC

May Day was a big deal in East Germany. As a matter of fact, it was a big deal in all of the Communist Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War era. It was, after all, a day for celebrating workers around the world. Since Communist countries wer…

Apr 29, 2020

Sep 12, 2019

This is how David Bowie helped bring down the Berlin Wall

In 1987, singer David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin, near the Reichstag. The performance was so loud, a massive crowd gathered on the East side of the nearby Berlin Wall to better hear his performance. He could hear the East Germans…