Photos The Cold War

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Future country superstar Johnny Cash with a friend on base in Landsburg, West Germany, 1952. His role was to intercept Morse Code transmissions from the Soviet Union. Johnny Cash became the first American to learn about the death of Joseph Stalin

 

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An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is paraded on Moscow's Red Square during a parade May 9, 1965, marking Victory in Europe day

 

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Officers of the Soviet naval infantry during military exercise Red Dawn

 

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Finnish Comet tanks, Finland, 1963

 

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Soviet helicruiser BAKU. 1988

 

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Soviet helicruiser BAKU. 1988
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That looks like a RN Lynx, whats the story here?

 

[Redav]

That looks like a RN Lynx, whats the story here?

No idea. Just came across the pic.

 

[BravoZulu]

That looks like a RN Lynx, whats the story here?

No idea. Just came across the pic.

It was the Cold War, it was quite common for this kind of stuff to go on. All sorts of hijinks were carried out without the knowledge of the media and involved all the navies of the western nations. I've had personal experience in lots of funny S**t we got up to with the Russians

 

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Apocalypse Now playing in Polish cinema during imposed Martial Law (1981)

 

[BravoZulu]

A-350 anti-ballistic missile launcher, Moscow parade, November 1967

 

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Albanian People's Army officer talking to soldiers before training.

 

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JNA (Jugoslav People's Army) border patrol

 

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Three members of the US 8th Infantry Division. West Germany, 1981

 

[robson68]

Polish border guard and his horse drink from a stream - exact date unknown but during the cold war.
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I've found this picture colorised.

On the picture Private Jan Grzybek and his horse "Orlik" from Independent Mountain Infantry Battalion. Picture taken between 1969-1979. Jan Grzybek passed away in 2018.

 

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Czechoslovak and East German border guards on the left and right respectively (1985)

 

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Hungarian border guard patrolling on horseback (1960s)

 

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US soldier stationed in West Germany, next to border with Czechoslovakia (1982)

 

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A Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 (s/n 1887504, NATO reporting name: "Badger") flies past the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hewitt (DD-966) underway, circa in 1978.

 

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Soviet officers at the Memorial to the Fallen Soviet Soldiers in Tiergarten, within the British sector of West Berlin (August 5, 1982)