Algeria, 1956. No further info.

Photo donated to the French military archives, originally from an album belonging to a soldier of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes.

#MilitaryHistory #France #Algeria #ColdWar #Counterinsurgency

The IS-4 turned out to be impractically heavy and the Soviet Army needed a new heavy tank. A prototype was finished #OTD in 1949. The IS-5 tank was more reminiscent of the earlier IS-3 with a bowl turret and pike nose. This tank evolved into the T-10. #tanks #history #ColdWar

On this day in the #coldwar 14th Sep 1959: Just after midnight Moscow time, the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes into the Moon.

It becomes the first human-made object ever to reach another world.

Less than 2 years after Sputnik the USSR has scored another victory in the Space Race

Last nights first watch #film was the neat little thriller The Net (Anthony Asquith, UK 1953)

with James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Noel Willman, Herbert Lom & Robert Beatty

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#MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #50sFilm #FiftiesCinema #ColdWar #thriller

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - The Stay Behinds: #Sweden's #ColdWar Guardians

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The same tight circle that saved Europe fed the mistakes in Vietnam. Isaacson and Thomas show both sides without flinching.
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For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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However, the full chain of events that led one of Mao’s closest allies from designated successor to a fatal flight across Mongolia remains contested.

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One of your jobs as a young airman (or airwoman) in the #ColdWar was to update ASMA every time we had QRA. The Evaluation Officer would work out an estimate for the Soviet aircraft to enter the UK Air Defence Region. When it did enter, the EO used a big clunky system called Link4 to pass the track…

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This week's #PromptCombo is #The90s

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#poetrycommunity #GenX #80s #90s #ColdWar #TheBomb #RaveCulture #RiteOfSpring #Stravinsky #Bez

The Dark Side of Cold War Science: Unethical Experiments and Weaponization:
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Reading 2026 no13: Fascinating memoir from US army officer Nina Willner about her mother’s escape from East Germany and Willner’s posting to Berlin during the Cold War #booksky #memoir #ddr #coldwar

"Boy Poses As Mule To Escape"
September 13, 1954
#OTD #USSR #1950s #ColdWar

The long term plan is to have a 40 acre #heritage centre as part of the Alconbury Weald development based around the two Grade II listed buildings and four listed hardened aircraft shelters ✈
#ColdWar #WWII #Alconbury

Fascinating tour of the Alconbury Weald Avionics building yesterday 🙂
Unlike many developers Urban&Civic obviously have a commitment to the long heritage associated with the site of former USAF Alconbury 🛅 @englishheritage.bsky.social
#heritage #history #USAF #WW2 #ColdWar

In today’s nuclear weapons debate it is often forgotten that during the #ColdWar many NATO countries incl. Denmark had nuclear capable systems as eg the Honest John (picture) & 203mm howitzers. In peacetime the warheads were kept in a bunker in Meyn just south of the 🇩🇰-🇩🇪 border.

On this day in the #coldwar 13 September 1968: #Albania formally leaves Warsaw Pact.

A founding member in 1955, Enver Hoxha’s fiercely Stalinist Albania had already fallen out with Moscow & moved towards Mao’s China

The final straw? The Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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BROWNS OFF TO ELSALVADOR Trade warfare screwin' allies and civilians alike with TARIFFS and trans rights can goto a Christian nationalist hell A MUSLIM CLASS CANNOT SERVE OFFICE its a #COLDWAR and its heating up Not to mention disabled can go to the chambers.... #bigtentmyass

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