Article from 1980 about Viktor Belenko, who defected with a MiG to the States
Although the freedom and responsibility given to sailors aboard the aircraft carrier surprised Belenko, something else stunned him even more—that sailors not only had a choice of food, but that they could eat as much as they wanted. He suspected another ruse and decided to test the system. Along with his CIA guides, Belenko walked through the self-service line, filling his dinner plate. He then found a table and sat down to eat. Then suddenly he jumped up and ran through the line again. When no one paid him any attention he filled up another dinner plate and returned to the table.
I am reminded of a time back in the 90s when I was a kid, probably 10-12ish. I was at a Golden Corral restaurant. I watched as a family came in with a kid who looked a few years older than me, probably a teenager. He looked around in awe at the giant buffet.
"Wow! There is so much!" He exclaimed as he rushed off. I overheard the adults talking, he was adopted from Russia, and they had just gotten off their flight back, so this was his first American outing.
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A fascinating look at Cold War Yugoslavia and the fact it was a very popular Naturist travel destination
Clothes-free tourism was one of the many things that made Yugoslav communism rather different to the model then offered by the Soviet bloc. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Yugoslavia was one of the biggest nudist destinations in the world. Koversada, which could accommodate 10,000 guests at its peak, was just one part of a coastal resort archipelago that attracted an estimated one million naturists a year.
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“The communist authorities didn’t really understand what naturism was,” says Jerko Sladoljev, who came to work at Koversada as a young tourist-management graduate in 1968. “Although they did see that the Catholic Church didn’t like it, and anything that made the Church uncomfortable was pretty good in their eyes.”
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THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT (1990)
The below article discussing if America is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine referred to 'the uniporal moment' - something I don't recall ever hearing before. So I went looking for a resource on it and this article from 1990 seems to be it.
In short, it refers to the moment that the USSR conceded West Germany and ended the Cold War.
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The Courier (2020)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan in a Cold War era film. My first movie of 2022. Overall quite good though the ending dragged.
3.5/5
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