LINKS COMING SOON
Russia
Martin Manhoff Collection of Photos in Soviet-Era Russia
Photographs taken by a US diplomat who may have been a spy. Humanizing images of daily life in Soviet Russia of the 1950s.
Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions (with english subtitles)
A screwball 1972 comedy film about a time machine that helps Czar Ivan the Terrible get into the XXth century, and a scientist and a burglar from the XXth century into Old Russia.
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Film: The Vow (unsubtitled)
1946 Soviet film by Mikheil Chiaureli that is a paean to Stalin and his ideology. Described in the Pravda as, "In The Vow... It is demonstrated how all the actions of Comrade Stalin were consecrated, in unity with the will of the people... The artistic and ideological merit of the picture is in its portrayal of the love and confidence of the people toward Comrade Stalin."
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General
Information about the Cold War Experience told from sites where events took place
Woodrow Kuhns, editor
Cold War chronology and collection of Cold-War era declassified CIA documents published by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence
Germany
Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker discusses 40 years spent chronicling life in strange, sad, vicious and sometimes hilarious East Berlin.
Lithuania
As the USSR Collapsed: A CIA Officer in Lithuania
The fall of communism in the USSR, told 15 years later from the point of view of a CIA operative
Lithuania vs the USSR: A Secret Hot Fight in the Cold War
The occupation of Lithuania, and resistance against it, persisted almost until the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union
Cuba
Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis
The fall of communism in the USSR, told 15 years later from the point of view of a CIA operative
Links to Resources on the Cold War
United States - Museums
Wende Museum -
Culver City, CA
New museum collecting Russian and East European Cold War memorabilia
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