These kinds of episodes are my favourites because they have a lot of ”fun facts”.

@andrewbaker6056

Жыл бұрын

"Fun Facts" makes me depressed 😀

@TheColdWarTV

Жыл бұрын

They are a ton of work to make but they are very interesting snapshots of a period in time

@jaws666

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheColdWarTVserious qiestion...and forgive my stupidity but was East Germany ever offically recognised by the western allies?

@TheColdWarTV

Жыл бұрын

@jaws666 full UN member status was given to East Germany in 1973 (same time as West germany) by means of Security Council Resolution 335 and official US recognition happened in 1974. Once West Germany's Hallstein Doctrine fell away in 1969, it was just a matter of time that it happened.

@jaws666

Жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV ah cool...thanks for the info,much appreciated my friend.👍👍

An interesting Cold War tidbit: In the early 80's I was an engineer on the "Blue Shuttle" project. The idea was that in the event of an impending nuclear exchange, a number of Space Shuttles, under the command of the US Air Force, would launch into orbit with nuclear weapons on board. They were to serve as a second strike reserve. It never got off the ground, no pun intended, because of scattered management and cost overruns. One of the interesting problems was that the Space Shuttle crawler that transported it from the assembly building to the launch pad was designed for the flat terrain of Florida. To be used at Edwards Air Force Base, the crawler would need to have been able to keep the Shuttle level over gradients in the path between buildings. That turned out to be so hugely expensive that it killed the project.

@TheColdWarTV

Жыл бұрын

fascinating...i'd never heard of this until now. Thank you for sharing!

@jaws666

Жыл бұрын

Always found it amazing that a country as small as Isreal was (at the time before she captured terrirtory) and surrounded by hostile enemies on all fronts not only survived but took the fight to her enemies and kicked ass.

@teethgrinder83

Жыл бұрын

Wow that's interesting! It's crazy, I mean when you were doing that I was likely just born haha (I was born in '83). There are so many stories from the Cold War to be told

@teethgrinder83

Жыл бұрын

​@@jaws666it's amazing for sure but sadly people in Palestine are still suffering greatly from increasing hard-line Right wing Israeli tactics and it's 2023 now

@jaws666

Жыл бұрын

@@teethgrinder83 oh so true sadly

Christopher Hitchens's The Missionary Position explodes the myth of Mother Teresa.

The Syracuse NBA team was actually the Nats, short for Nationals. They moved to Philadelphia in the 1960's and are now the 76ers. Also, the Lakers were playing in Minneapolis at the time.

@benjaminalbright4003

Жыл бұрын

Also it's pronounced Lie-ver birds not liver, despite the city being Liverpool. Still a cool vid!/

Another important event was the signing of the Sino-Soviet pact in February 1950 - the alliance of the Soviets with communist China which caused much concern in the US and set the tone for the Cold War.

Yet another incredibly interesting video on a crucial year in history! 👏

When you began talking about wallets and diners club, was anyone else waiting for him to go into a ridge wallet commercial? 😂

@coimbralaw

11 ай бұрын

No.

You should definitely do a video like this for ever decade like 1950, 60, 70, etc. and maybe even videos for 1955, 65, 75 too

Thanks

In the Soviet Union, remote control was never introduced on Soviet made TVs.

I’m so glad that these are back!!!

Love your videos ❤

Nice recap video

I really enjoyed this one.

@TheColdWarTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@ciripa

11 ай бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV ...love this kind of episodes, i think every year of the cold war would deserve an episode like this!

29:04 Kamen Rider Zero One, as the first Rider series of Reiwa Era Japan would use the premise of war between humans and man-made robots with limitless potential thanks to advanced AI.

Good stuff :)

@fluffypants

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you hanzup

Good video, I hope there will always be videos about the Cold War

@TheColdWarTV

Жыл бұрын

So do we. Like, share and subscribe to make sure can keep going!

@_Ben___

9 ай бұрын

There's only so much time, eventually it'll exceed the actual length of the cold war.

Woah I just saw this video come up and it looks cool

I love this channel and it's format. Are you tied to indie niedell and time ghost? Both have similar set ups and i love this format quite a bit.

@Black-Sun_Kaiser

Жыл бұрын

They are not. They're affiliated with the same team that produces kings and generals channel

Nice.

Thank you for another interesting episode to listen to. I want to read more Asimov soon I think; I was excited to hear him getting a shout-out in this one! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

Also the year my father was born:))) ....love this kind of episodes, i think every year of the cold war would deserve an episode like this!

2:54 David: "only 69 seats" Me: "Nice" David: "Nice" Me: 😍😍😍

Really cool episode. Thanks!

I'm kind of shocked at how little videos you have about Israel, I definitely think you should go back to the topic after a couple of years and maybe redo some of the videos, even though you're already quite far past it chronologically with your videos.

Why use a remote, when you can use your kids?😁

😂I like the I-Robot quote about the rules of Asimov. Now look at any robot today and you won't find them. Where you find them? In self driving cars. They just crush over people. They just need a NY voice "I'm driving here".

Hang on a second! Are you telling me that that terribly smart handset on the end of a long grey cable like a phone wire that let my grandmother change the channel on her RCA TV (black and white, of course) was at least 18 years old at my first memory of it? I'm shocked!

Informative, have historically interesting values and enjoyable watching...thank you ( the Cold 🥶 war) channel... many of those information were hidden by former authors from youth generations' eyes 👀 due to political reasons in MiddleEast countries

The defence production act of 1950 sounds somewhat like the patriot act.

@samwill7259

Жыл бұрын

It's functionally identical, just with differences in technology.

32:11 yes do the National defense episode

Ohh there are some bits that blink to black on this video, I thought my TV was broken!

"Unarmed trainig flight". I find it hard to belive such training flights would be conducted right next to the border of your geopolitocal rival.

Looks like your work is cut out for you: episodes for each year until 1991. Good watch please do more!

I find it so weird that us Scots wanted to play football barefoot-i mean it's really not the best weather to practice barefoot over here except for the summer, you'd probably get frostbite from Oct to Feb lol

URUGUAY NOMA!!!!

@debrisking

11 ай бұрын

Sí señor!!! URUGUAY NOMAAAA!!

Republic day in India, adoption of constitution in 1950 was missed perhaps.

I wonder was Ralph Bunche's award the start of the long tradition of throwing Nobel Peace prizes at the Arab Israeli conflict. Lots of peace prizes but still no peace unforunately.

@baronessvondengler

Жыл бұрын

Without justice, there can’t be peace. Sadly.

The Korean war was one of the bloodiest wars in history? Should we not say something more like 'one of the longest drawn out armed conflicts' to reflect that it extends from history up to the current day? Just a thought.

@ChineseKiwi

Жыл бұрын

It is implied that it referring to the war up until the armistice.

@howwitty

Жыл бұрын

@@ChineseKiwi yes, as was often the case. Given the context, it's clear what time was being discussed. The armistice was in 1953, and the Cold war ended in 1991. So my question was not 'in which part of the 1950's were the Korean people actively engaged in conflict. That's a better question for a video about the Korean war. With respect to the Korean War in 1950, your response would make sense, but that is not what the video alluded to in its general description of the war being "bloody", which is why I asked the question I asked specifically in the way that I asked it.

Fun fact: Mother Theresa is possibly the most evil person mentioned in this video.

@Numba003

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think so?

@Nope_handlesaretrash

Жыл бұрын

@@Numba003 she would refuse medicine or pain management to the people in her hospital because suffering brings you closer to God, with some accusations that she would do the same with food and water and so on. She had a very specific fetishized take on her faith.

@Numba003

Жыл бұрын

@@Nope_handlesaretrash I don't know much about Mother Theresa other than the fact that she helped the poor in India. Despite her faults, I think evil is probably an unfair assessment. Do you have any good resources you could recommend I read on the subject?

Always use cash when I can. The bank, and others, then don't know how I spend my money. I really enjoy it when a vendor has problems with cash payments as well!

👍

What was the bank robbery in 1984?!

Big 1950s energy

Noice!

Later, R. Daneel Olivaw adopted the zeroeth law that a robot may not harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to be harmed.... .... and became our robot overlord.

and the Toronto Argonauts beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to win the 38th Grey Cup in what would be called the "Mud Bowl".

Balian of Ibelin should have gone through with his plan to raze the damned city to the ground and leave not a single stone in place... it would have saved the world a lot of trouble.

The idea that India didn't participate in the World Cup due to the need of shoes is a myth. Indian players had no issue with playing with shoes. They withdrew due to travelling costs.

Nice video, can you do a video on America’s history with immigration similar to the Britain video.

Did the Soviets have their own sporting events? Who won what?

6:59 lol your mouth is out of sync!

1950, the year in which I was born. Big whoop ... LOL

McCarthy was ultimately right about the US state department and also broadly correct in his fears.

@bizbe4465

2 ай бұрын

The issue was he had no evidence. So he was essentially just going. I know, but also I don't know.

Would like to see more about the action in Puerto Rico. I was unaware of that. Regarding McCarthy, I think the publication of the Venona Papers in the 1990s served to confirm much of his concerns about Commies in our government. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Obama completely undermines the reasons for its existence as Obama had done nothing at the time he received the award.

15:32 and almost sound like they have failed their economics class with none of them wanting to admit it, am I right? 😂

@24:07 the case was solved by Lt. Frank Drebbin of Police Squad!!! Way to go Frank! (I knew you were good for something, besides parking/running into fire hydrants; making fun of George Kennedy, and slapping OJ down the stadium aisle) 😂🤦‍♂🤣

Pedant Army assemble.

Wow. Spoken like a true Canadian. Notice that he never speaks out against Canadian policy or government.....must be a reason for that.... maybe he'd be targeted if he was. Shame...

“…almost as if those critics don’t know the meaning of Communism.” Understatement of the century.

@samwill7259

Жыл бұрын

Most people don't realize socialism and communism are different words, different schools of thought with different definitions and end goals.

@chrisbutler1668

Жыл бұрын

​@@samwill7259 The same thing with Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism. They have a strong fundamental difference. Marx believed that a faux democratic election was necessary to place socialist politicians in office, but Lenin, after the Russian Revolution, realized that a phony election wasn't necessary for them to keep control over the government.

@samwill7259

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisbutler1668 Many or most modern socialist ideaologies believe in actual substantive democracy. If anything BECAUSE of the direct examples provided by leninism, stalinism and maoism

Holla to all the pedants out there in the comments.

69 seats...nice

Another great video. Speaking of mcarthyism, we're facing it now but its waning down.

Ah, hate against Mother Teresa, we now know what the political bias is of this channel ;)

@bizbe4465

2 ай бұрын

"Hate" all he did was state what people believe.

A little too much anti conservative bias in this episode.

Mother Teresa converted dying people to Christ against they're will so that way they'd be accepted into heaven....

2:45 “nice.”

Thanks