Cold War

1950-today: Corporate and state intervention in the arts

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The Cultural Cold War

1966: The Blake prison escape

Steven. — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:19:13 +0000

In 1966, the most notorious prisoner in Britain was sprung from jail. George Blake was a British double-agent serving 42 years for spying for the Soviet Union. At the time this was the longest jail sentence ever imposed by a British court.

1940-1989: The Cold War

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How the Cold War worked

1945-1957: Vietnam

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1957-1975: The Vietnam War

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Following the partitioning of Vietnam into the pro-independence Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the North, and the US puppet state the Republic of Vietnam in the South in 1954 (see our short history of Vietnam from 1945 to 1957) elections were due to be held on re-unification.

16. A People's War?

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:21:56 +0000

"We, the governments of Great Britain and the United States, in the name of India, Burma, Malaya, Australia, British East Africa, British Guiana, Hong Kong, Siam, Singapore, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, as well as Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, and the Virgin Islands, hereby declare most emphatically, that this is