I've been watching some great Cold War movies like Thirteen Days. The aesthetics are terrific and the tension spectacular. I'm wondering, though, whether there are any films that show the conflict from the Russian perspective? I would especially like to watch (or perhaps read?) accounts by true believers who felt they were defending the people from capitalist imperialism.
posted by jefficator
on Feb 24, 2013 -
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Did the United States ever have a plan to invade Russia or any part of the Soviet Union?
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posted by mousepad
on Jan 8, 2013 -
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Russian History: Why did the Soviet military retain the traditional (western) Officer/Enlisted class binary rather than instituting some other hierarchichal structure? How did they ideologically justify maintaining two distinct and separate classes, one subordinate to the other, in an army putatively fighting for a classless society?
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posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj
on Nov 2, 2012 -
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There have been questions about Cold War songs from the '80s (
1,
2,
3). What about songs about the Cold War from the
2000s?
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posted by flawsekno
on May 7, 2012 -
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Let's say Russia wanted to be rid of that pesky NATO alliance once and for all. For fiction purposes, how might they go about making this happen? All ideas welcome, no matter how implausible.
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posted by np312
on Aug 31, 2010 -
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Looking for books about the Cold War for French high school students. More below.
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posted by jackmcc
on Jun 23, 2009 -
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I am looking to make a music playlist that recaptures that '89 cold war, fall of communism feel. Think Scorpions - Wind of Change.
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posted by DOUBLE A SIDE
on Aug 5, 2008 -
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Give me the Cold War chills, please. I'm going on vacation soon and I would like to settle down on the beach with a really juicy espionage novel, preferably something about the Cold War, something suitably dense, complex, panoramic and violent. What should I read?
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posted by gentle
on Aug 9, 2007 -
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Asking for friend: Watching
The Lives of Others, a movie taking place in East Germany during the Cold War, I noticed that a limousine in the movie was a Volvo. I have also noticed that other movies set in the Eastern Bloc show cars made by Western nations. Is this an oversight by the movie makers, or were these cars actually available at these times?
posted by dreamyshade
on Feb 21, 2007 -
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Etymology question: astronaut vs. cosmonaut. Why are there two separate terms for the same thing? Is the distinction just a Cold War relic? It always seemed a little redundant to me. What about "taikonaut"?
posted by mkn
on Feb 22, 2004 -
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