#cold war
Crowd examines dispay of mannequins used in atomic bomb tests
(Edward Clark. 1953*)
* Might be 1955
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It just so happened, the day I met David Warner, that I caught the beginning of a Miss Marple he just so happened to have been in on the television that morning.
“I won’t spoil the ending for you, then,” he said dryly, “because I don’t remember.”
Fair enough, sir. I wouldn’t reasonably expect someone with so extensive a CV to remember the minutiae of everything they’ve been in. (Plus, it turns out that the 80s music Professor Grisenko - his character in the Eleventh Doctor story Cold War - was so fond of, Warner himself was largely unfamiliar with. This is something I can just about forgive, given that he did give a masterful performance in one of the best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes ever made. And Tron. I think we can cut him some slack about Ultravox.)
And what’s more, he starred as the Doctor opposite Nicholas Courtney in Big Finish’s Unbound stories Sympathy For The Devil and Masters Of War. That’s pretty awesome, as far as I’m concerned.
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East and West Berlins celebrate the lifting of travel restrictions on East Germans on top of the Berlin Wall, in front of the Brandenburg Gate (1989).
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A censored telegram (Poland, 1982).
During Poland’s 1.5 years of martial law in the early 1980, many civil liberties were suspended. Curfew was enforced, telephone lines were disconnected, letters and telegrams were censored, and road access to major cities was restricted.
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Rationing card for food, alcohol and cigarettes (Poland, 1981 – 83).
During the period of martial law, the ruling military dictatorship raised prices in what they called “economic reforms”, which meant that wages were then 20% lower in comparison, and rationing had to be introduced.
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Berlin Stresemannstrasse 1986. Mercedes L Series Trucks parked next to the Berlin Wall. These trucks were manufactured from the sixties up until 1995.
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