The 'Blue Dawn' Legacy: From Soviet Planning For WWIII Partisans To The War In Ukraine

A secret oral history, contextualized

Oct 16, 2022

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A Naval rocket is exhibited in Moscow's Red Square in front of a banner of Vladimir Lenin, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx during the May 1, 1963, May Day parade.

Glasnost was a strange time. Seven decades after the Revolution, the late Soviet Union was full of contradictions awaiting resolution.

Perestroika, McDonalds in Moscow, blue jeans and rock and roll all punctured the Warsaw Pact system and let the air out of Soviet communist ideology like a red balloon gently, slowly, sadly. No sudden pop occurred, thoug…

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