Tag: Cold War
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Wanderers
A friend posted this amazing video, based off real places in the solar system, more about each location on his website (spookily I looked at the star formation early in the film and went ‘oh that’s a long time ago’ – turns out, 10,000 BC) My friend said that we or our children won’t be…
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Radio Moscow Nights and Time Zones
I know Radio Moscow not so much from my shortwave exploits (although a little, I was a World Wide Catholic Radio kind of girl…so much death, gloom and hypocrisy translated in stilted language, so little time!) but more from Time Zones by Negativland. But a friend posted about Moscow Nights by Vladimir Troshin, which I…
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Bye bye empire, bye bye
This one of the songs that has haunted me for very long time, but I didn’t know it was actually about his uncle that died when a WW2 sub sunk …decades ago came up with a fantasy about an escaped submarine deciding to do a Mutiny on the Bounty, a sort of cold-war fantasy fable,…
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Santa’s Satellite: Soviet Space Age Festive Cards
Now as you might have guessed from the latest Radio Clash I’m on a Space Age Santa tip inspired by Mr Fab’s compilation, I didn’t realise that over the Cold War border Santa – or ‘Father Frost’ was also going into space in Soviet Russia. Not Christmas cards as such but New Year ones, and…