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It’s the Day of German Unity, marking the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany. In our current period of global instability, do you ever feel nostalgic for the seeming simplicity of the Cold War?

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[info]tango Writer's Block: Day of German Unity


The "Cold War" was something for history books when I was in school - and I was born in 1980. I didn't understand the big deal about the reunification, indeed I probably thought it was a unification.

I remember the Challenger incident better and see it as more significant to my generation. I was in kindergarten when it happened, what does that say about what influenced me growing up?
 
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[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
Nope.

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[info]indigozeal Writer's Block: Day of German Unity

Do most LJers even have a point of comparison? Do we even remember what the Cold War was like anymore? In an era where Indiana Jones survives ground zero through a lead-lined fridge and farmers on J
 
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[info]chicago976 Writer's Block: Day of German Unity

There was nothing seemingly simple about the Cold War. Never in the history of the planet Earth were the human race so dangerously close to Thermal Nuclear Holocaust. The United States of America an
 
marilyn
[info]1969wreckedme Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
no
 
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[info]kallistos Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
 
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[info]blackflame2180 Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
No.

I was born in '80. I was in 4th grade when the Berlin wall came down; I remember at the time that a lot of people who had traveled to Berlin were coming back with chunks of the wall. I remember be
 
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[info]larpwriting Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
No.  I think that yearning for the Cold War is very similar to romanticizing the First or Second World War.  Great from a vantage point of watching movies and wanting an artificially simplif
 
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[info]muddyhymnal Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
the simplicity of the cold war? are you serious? i would like to see this question asked to afghans. for one, my father was on submarines during the cold war and i can say with much assurance, noth
 
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[info]harlotbug3 Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
I assume this question is intended only for members who were children in the 1980s, oblivious to any political nuance beyond “Russians bad. Americans good.” Seeming simplicity of the cold
 
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[info]madwitch This is possibly the most ridiculous question ever. Certainly in the top 5.


What drugs is the person that came up with this question on, and where can I get some?
 
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[info]ichliebetiger Writer's Block: Day of German Unity



Anyone who thinks that the Cold War political period was simple clearly does not know much about the politics of the period.  I think that the current period of global insecurity is equal to the

 
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[info]atomic_joe2 Writer's Block: Day of German Unity


As I was growing up and oblivious to it all until I saw The Hoff on TV singing at the collapse of the Berlin Wall, I can't really say I knew what it was like to live day to day in such conditions.

But
 
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[info]finesseccentric Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
Dear Magdalena,



The insanity of this question is amazing.



How do we sleep?

How am I ever going to sleep again?
 
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[info]hangin_judge Writer's Block: Day of German Unity


Yes, at least the Soviets kept all these crazies in check so we didn't have to.
 
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[info]yumekutteikt Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
I don't suppose that many of U.S. citizens would agree on that 'seeming simplicity' part anyway, but if I add my words-- it really was uneasy to live in a U.S.-alley country which is geographicall
 

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