For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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Switzerland has nearly 370,000 bunkers built during the Cold War.

There's enough space to shelter almost the entire population.

These shelters hide under apartments, schools, and even roads.

#Switzerland #Bunkers #ColdWar

"One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

#ColdWar #USMilitary #USRevolution #MilitaryPeople #WordsOfVeterans

For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #books, it's "Atomic Secrets", John A. Hopkins' first David Brook #thriller set in a #ColdWar against an undefeated #NaziGermany. The third in the series will release before too long! www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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#sweden #coldwar #staybehinds

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For decades, ordinary Swedes secretly prepared for the day Soviet forces might occupy their country.

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#sweden #coldwar #staybehinds

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Alternate 1988: Trump's Presidency and the End of the Cold War:

#AlternateHistory #Trump1988 #ColdWar #WhatIf #Populism #TradeWars #Gorbachev #BerlinWall

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

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Excerpt from Silent Vector, Nick Temple File no. 3

#ColdWar #bioterrorism #USVI #Kenya #polio #KGB #Cuba #alternatehistory

A flicker of a candle’s flame is what it takes to reveal cracks in the party’s wall of homogeneity. Check out the latest from Elitsa Dermendzhiyska. “By Candlelight, By Blue Jeans” is free to read on FFO!
#coldwar #flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream
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The T-54B tank was accepted into service #OTD in 1956. The T-54B was an upgrade to the T-54A, implementing a two-plane stabilizer and night vision devices for the crew. #tanks #history #ColdWar

Summer 1950: M8 Greyhound of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs during movement of a convoy along Route Coloniale 4 near the Chinese border, en route to Lang Son.

#MilitaryHistory #France #Vietnam #Indochina #ColdWar

Since we could not give you the whole movie for our Feature #TheMouseontheMoon Our #MovienightBonusFeature is the one that came first here. #TheMouseThatRoaredwas originally writtenby #LeonardWibberley a #ColdWar #SatiricalNovelist who introdued us to #Grandfenwick

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Rerunning on empty//

We have almost certainly provided this link before, but it remains one of the most intriguing of America's 20th century mini-theocracies: the pseudo- #Catholic #Marian #cult in #Necedah, #Wisconsin, a #ColdWar #RedScare phenomenon.

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Justice by Madalyn Morgan @stormbooksco.bsky.social #coldwar #spy #thriller

Ena Dudley and Artie Mallory investigate espionage and treason.

"Gripping story & great conclusion."
"I couldn't put Justice down."
"A real page-turner."

#Kindle #KindleUnlimited #Paperback
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Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #FaultLines

#poetry: ©Jan Peters, 2025

#poetrycommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #GenX #penfriends #80s #90s #ColdWar #Yugoslavia #Croatia #Zagreb #Bosnia

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