The View East

'Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present'. Blog exploring the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe written by @kellyhignett

[Cold War Conversations Podcast @ColdWarPod]

Please nominate @ColdWarPod in the Discover Pods Awards.

Podcast Name: Cold War Conversations

Podcast Website: https://t.co/U34egrT5fR

Podcast Category: History

Use the link below to nominate us. Many thanks!

https://t.co/pgHWqGUOfl

[The View East @thevieweast]

A very interesting, moving and reflective #longread by Martin Pollack in today’s ⁦@guardian⁩ - “My family and other Nazis” https://t.co/aiVN0t7OJj

[The View East @thevieweast]

Communist-era apartment blocks dominate Eastern Europe – now they're being transformed https://t.co/R86A1r56lY via @BBC_Future

[The View East @thevieweast]

Football in Stalinist Albania: ‘The only 90 minutes when people could be themselves’ https://t.co/NcgkWuILGD #albania #coldwar #coldwarhist #football

[The View East @thevieweast]

Witness History: East Germany’s Coffee from Vietnam: https://t.co/YWUSbu1CB9 #eastgermany #vietnam #coldwar #coffee

[The View East @thevieweast]

Exploring the echoes of communism in contemporary Bucharest https://t.co/RBfjxHXmAQ #romania #bucharest #coldwar #coldwarhist

[Josip Broz Tito 🇵🇸 @Broz1892]

Supreme Commander Tito in Jajce, the morning after he was awarded the rank of "Marshal of Yugoslavia" by the AVNOJ Assembly acting on a motion of recommendation from the Slovene delegation headed by Josip Vidmar - November 30th, 1943.

[German at Portsmouth @GermanAtPompey]

20 July 1966: Karl-Marx-Stadt city centre, which had received over 150 million GDR marks for new buildings and infrastructure (via Bundesarchiv)

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Photo by Sandor Bojar, Bratsk, 1965.

[Cold War Conversations Podcast @ColdWarPod]

Stunning descriptions of the #coldwar #revolutions in #Romania and #Czechoslovakia with @alittl

Listen here ⬇️⬇️
https://t.co/eZ5O3HOOF7

@braynework @Jac_Hayden @WhitlamsBerlin @markbakerprague @thevieweast @JohnSimpsonNews @CzechCentreLnd @SHAFRhistorians @ColdWarRecords

[The Berliner Magazine @theberlinermag]

✊ Federal and state governments commemorate deadly GDR uprising

Events are taking place across Berlin commemorating those who died in a series of violent uprisings against GDR-rule in 1953.

#17june1953 #gdr #berlin

[Cold War Conversations Podcast @ColdWarPod]

Cold War Conversations: “There’s nothing like hearing history from somebody who was there”

My interview in @theberlinermag

@WhitlamsBerlin @DDROnline @GermanAtPompey @AgataFijalkow @thevieweast @MClaudeHawkes @MauraMcC127 @craig_stennett

https://t.co/xgqKRtvOYu

[DailyRadical History @radicaldaily]

Jun 16 1953 – 300 building workers walk out on strike against pay cuts and quotas. Ignites the East German Uprising the following day.

[ENRS @enrs_eu]

📅 On 17 June 1953, the East Germany Uprising began, marking a major protest against the policies of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the government as a whole.

📰 Read more here:
https://t.co/VzvdDMniqZ

#OnThisDay #GermanHistory #20thCenturyHistory

[German at Portsmouth @GermanAtPompey]

Stamp issued in Germany in 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 17 June 1953 uprising in the GDR

[ENRS @enrs_eu]

📅 On 14 May 1955 the Warsaw Pact was signed in Warsaw.
📜 The Pact was a Soviet Union's reaction to accession of West Germany to NATO. It sanctioned subordination of the Eastern Bloc countries and their armies to the Soviet Union.

#OnThisDay #20thCenturyHistory

[The View East @thevieweast]

Red tape: Rosamund Johnston digs into Czechoslovak Radio under communism:

https://t.co/afEep5d6af

#czechoslovakia #radio #coldwarhist #coldwar #media

[The View East @thevieweast]

Defendants portraits shed light on political trials in Communist Albania:

https://t.co/EhCl8nAMxu

#albania #coldwarhist

[The View East @thevieweast]

The Photographer Who Broke Into Communist Hungary's Prison System https://t.co/BFSZ5gNCMn #hungary #coldwarhist

[Nick Short 🇺🇦 @nickfshort]

A lonely car traveling from East Berlin is halted by a West Berlin police officer against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate, with visible spike traps. 1953.

A haunting image.

#Berlin #ColdWar