World Civ-Cold War in West Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:34:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Color Video Shows Life in Berlin at the End of WWII https://daniellazar.com/2017/03/08/color-video-shows-life-in-berlin-at-the-end-of-wwii/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:59:45 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5669 “Spirit of Berlin” a short color film with historic footage showing everyday life in the German capital in July 1945 — just two months after the end of the war.  

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]]> 'They raped every German female from eight to 80' https://daniellazar.com/2016/08/10/they-raped-every-german-female-from-eight-to-80/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:17:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5544 “Red Army soldiers don’t believe in ‘individual liaisons’ with German women,” wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. “Nine, ten, twelve men at a time – they rape them on a collective basis.” The Soviet armies advancing into East Prussia in January 1945, … Continue reading 'They raped every German female from eight to 80' →

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]]> How David Bowie became the loathed adversary of a Soviet-era youth movement https://daniellazar.com/2016/01/31/how-david-bowie-became-the-loathed-adversary-of-a-soviet-era-youth-movement/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:47:24 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5475 Among a certain set of Soviet citizens, Bowie became notorious as the immaculately fashionable foe of the artists collective and aspiring youth-movement masterminds known as Mitki… Given the humble boiler room beginnings of the Mitki movement, it’s not surprising that overarching rejection of Western glamor is a central tenet of the group’s idiosyncratic philosophy. Exactly … Continue reading How David Bowie became the loathed adversary of a Soviet-era youth movement →

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]]> Lazar's Lecture on The Stalin Years https://daniellazar.com/2015/10/09/lazars-lecture-on-the-stalin-years/ Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:48:53 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5377 Lecture Outline: Brief note on origins Stalin’s Inheritance & His Plans Mixed Industrial Results Mixed Agricultural Results Raw Terror Foreign Policies Stalin’s Legacy Stalin: The Hero who Preserved the Revolution or the Villain who Destroyed it? Enjoy.

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]]> Explanation of Stalin's purges https://daniellazar.com/2015/10/09/explanation-of-stalins-purges/ Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:46:40 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5375 Here is an Explanation of Stalin’s purges from a Soviet History Text

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]]> Stalin's Cult of Personality https://daniellazar.com/2015/10/09/stalins-cult-of-personality/ Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:45:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5373 Here is Khrushchev’s 1956 Secret Speech on Stalin’s Cult of Personality

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]]> How Warner Bros. Animators Responded to the Cold War (1948-1980) https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/how-warner-bros-animators-responded-to-the-cold-war-1948-1980/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:38:10 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5238 Warner Bros. animators, under the leadership of Charles M. “Chuck” Jones, launched their own, albeit mild, counter attack when they introduced Marvin the Martian in 1948, several years before The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Fail Safe (1964), Seven Days in May (1964), Dr. Strangelove (1964), or Boris and Natasha, the Russian spies in the Rocky and … Continue reading How Warner Bros. Animators Responded to the Cold War (1948-1980) →

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]]> Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War https://daniellazar.com/2015/02/04/our-dangerous-new-mccarthyism-russia-noam-chomsky-and-what-the-medias-not-telling-you-about-the-new-cold-war/ Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:38:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5195 It is time to attempt that hardest of things—to see ourselves for who we are, to see what it is we are doing and what is being done to us.  Two things prompt the thought. We have the latest news on Washington’s confrontation with Russia, and we have a newly precipitous decline in the national … Continue reading Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War →

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]]> The FBI files on being and nothingness https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/the-fbi-files-on-being-and-nothingness/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:29:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5032 The irony that emerges from the FBI files on Camus and Sartre, spanning several decades is that the G-men, initially so anti-philosophical, find themselves reluctantly philosophizing. They become (in GK Chesterton’s phrase) philosophical policemen. Hoover needed to know if Existentialism and Absurdism were some kind of front for Communism. To him, everything was potentially a coded … Continue reading The FBI files on being and nothingness →

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]]> Five Myths About the Cold War https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/five-myths-about-the-cold-war/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:03:16 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5013 Mark Kramer is director of Cold War Studies and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center. More than 20 years since the U.S.S.R. disappeared, Russia’s incursion into Ukraine is renewing old rivalries and sparking talk of a new Cold War, with former KGB officer Vladimir Putin serving as the West’s latest foil in Moscow. … Continue reading Five Myths About the Cold War →

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