Cold War
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.
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George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed a joint statement that symbolised the end of the Cold War today in 1992.
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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?”
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In the year 1848 Karl Marx and Freiderich Engels published ” Communist Manifesto ” . If Karl Marx and Freiderich Engels were honest men , their book would have been called ........ ” Red Bull ” . Read more »
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I have a joke from modern-day Ukraine, where I lived for three years. A reflection on the corrupt police. The graduate from the Police academy gets a job at the city precinct. He goes there on his first day, and the Chief gives him his uniform, his gun and his… Read more »
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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.
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Australians Overtake Americans For CO2 Output As Chinese Emissions Soar Australians have overtaken Americans as the world’s biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warming, a risk consultancy says. British firm Maplecroft placed Australia’s per capita output at 20.58 tons a year, some four percent higher… Read more »
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Liz says:
Lucky he ddin’t visit Starbucks or the Cold War may never have ended! Read more »
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