Cold War episode 21 – Soldiers of God 1975-1988 – Afghanistan is a war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated one million Afghans. The turbulent conflict in Afghanistan that unfolded during the closing decades of the 20th century can be characterized as a tragic, costly war of significant global consequence. This fierce clash resulted […]
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Cold War episode 18 – Good Guys, Bad Guys 1967-1978: The Cold War was not only a confrontation between two superpowers, but also a series of proxy conflicts that involved their allies and surrogates in different regions of the world. One of the main arenas of this surrogate warfare was the Middle East, where the United States and the Soviet
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Cold War episode 14 – Make Love, not War: The Sixties – As the Western economies experienced growth and prosperity during the mid-20th century, a significant portion of this success was fueled by the production of armaments. This era saw young people rejecting the affluence of their parents’ generation and the political tensions of the Cold War. Many among the
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