http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/cold-war/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-27-06-2011/ Body language experts would have a field day with this photo. Could there be anymore hand-gesturing going on? And didn’t they both have long fingers? It’s President Nixon and Prime Minister Brezhnev, taken in Moscow on this day in 1974. That was right smack bang in the middle of the Détente; a fancy name for the period during the cold war, when the big powers decided to try and act like adults, and lay their nukes on the table. Instead of just blowing stuff up. Or threatening to blow stuff up. The whole thing lost momentum in 1979 when the Soviets decided to invade Afghanistan. But it was a start - of sorts. Happy Monday everyone! Have you made some ambitious plans today? Share them here… penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-27-06-2011/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-27-06-2011/#item6157 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992. It’s Tuesday at The Punch. What’s on your mind? Share it here. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-01-02-2011/ George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992. It’s Tuesday at The Punch. What’s on your mind? Share it here. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-01-02-2011/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-01-02-2011/#item5009 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992. It’s Tuesday at The Punch. What’s on your mind? Share it here. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/recalling-communism-through-its-black-jokes/ I remember the jokes. They were usually about one of two things: hardship or fear. It’s been strange, this week, to reflect that most people will never know, as I did (albeit as a visitor) what it was really like in the old Soviet Bloc. But the jokes used to tell the story. An American dog, a Polish dog and a Russian dog are talking. The American dog says “Where I live it’s good. You bark loudly enough, and they give you meat”. The Polish dog says” What’s meat?” The Russian dog says “What’s bark?” penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/recalling-communism-through-its-black-jokes/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/recalling-communism-through-its-black-jokes/#item1701 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992. It’s Tuesday at The Punch. What’s on your mind? Share it here. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-15-09-09/ It’s Tuesday @ The Punch Today in 1959 in the middle of the Cold War and at the invitation of President Eisenhower Nikita Krushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit America. Details of the ten-day trip were said to have dominated news headlines across the world but many Eastern European immigrants protested against his arrival. Although reported to have been fairly “un-impressed” by the American way of life Krushchev said hotdogs and the lockers in Washington’s Union Station were among the few things he did enjoy. You can read a transcript of his opening speech here. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-15-09-09/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/punch-on-open-thread-15-09-09/#item1201 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992. It’s Tuesday at The Punch. What’s on your mind? Share it here.