cold war
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How To Steal A Soviet Helicopter
Deep in the Sahel, as Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya exploited instability in Chad to expand its territory, a daring operation took place to obtain one of the Soviet Union’s most advanced attack helicopters. It was a complex plan involving Chadian rebel groups as well as French and American soldiers and spies, but it worked.
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Think HBO’s Chernobyl Is Brutal? Check Out This Haunting Animation That Aired On TV In The 1950s
HBO’s new miniseries Chernobyl has gotten a lot of attention for its gory realism. Radiation from a nuclear power plant disaster is brutal for the human body, to say the least. But the explicit nature of Chernobyl almost pales in comparison to some of the things that were shown in the 1950s. Like this British…
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The Soviets May Have Once Built A Secret Nuclear-Powered Land-Submarine To Attack America
You know the scene at the end of The Incredibles—and the start of The Incredibles 2—that has the troglodyte supervillain the Underminer bursting out from underground in a colossal drilling machine? Well, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was actually developing just such a digging machine, a brutal, nuclear-powered beast called the Battle Mole.…
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Atomic Blonde Is A Kick-Arse Super-Spy Movie That’s More Dramatic Than It Looks
In many ways, aspects of Atomic Blonde will be really familiar to fans of high-octane action movies. It invests a lot in ambitious set pieces and fight choreography, and features many predictable character archetypes. But it manages to tie together its Cold War setting and character arcs into a larger theme very, very well.