Just like West Germany, post-WWII Italy found itself on the border with a communist dictatorship, Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia. Even though … Continue reading Base Tuono – Cold War Surface-To-Air Missiles in Italy
Between the end of WWII and the collapse of the USSR in the early Nineties, Germany was caught in the … Continue reading Traces of the Cold War in Southwest Germany
Soon after the end of WWII it was realized that nuclear weapons could pose a real threat to the survival … Continue reading Regierungsbunker – Federal Germany’s Atomic Shelter
As mentioned in previous chapters on the same topic – you can find the first and second here – the territory … Continue reading Soviet Airbases in the GDR – Third Chapter
Among the most unequivocal signs of the oppressive communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic – ‘GDR’ or ‘DDR’ … Continue reading STASI Prisons and Headquarters in Berlin and the GDR
Like other satellite countries in the Soviet empire, the German Democratic Republic – also known as ‘Eastern Germany’ before the … Continue reading Soviet Airbases in the GDR – First Chapter
