This British Army training film goes over the capabilities of the Soviet Motorized Rifle Regiment.
Archive for the ‘Cold War’ Category
The Soviet Motorized Rifle Regiment
Thursday, August 29th, 2019How To Fight Soviet Airmobile Operations
Sunday, August 11th, 2019
Red Dawn
Saturday, August 10th, 2019Today, we’re going to bleed some SolSys Instagram over to the website. 35 years ago this month, the movie Red Dawn was released in theaters. In anticipation, we saw this trailer all summer long.
What Americans Looked Like to Warsaw Pact Forces
Saturday, June 8th, 2019Soldiers of the US Army, patrolling the German/Czech border.
Photos were taken by a Czech Pioneer Service Guard.
DDR Grenzaufklärer
Saturday, May 11th, 2019
If you ever patrolled the border trace of the Inter-German Border between East West during the Cold War, you invariably encountered the Grenzaufklärer, or Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic.
Forces TV – The Cold War Legend That Delivered Sausages To British Tank Crews
Friday, November 2nd, 2018Having served in Germany at the end of the Cold War, it’s always interesting to me, to hear these kinds of stories, even if they are from a different army.
The British Army of the Rhine consisting primarily of British I Corps and began duties as an occupation force but that quickly changed to a posture of defense in order to counter the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces. In this role, BAOR was lead force for NATO’s Northern Army Group and was equipped with nuclear weapons. The organization was changed slightly in 1993 and deactivated altogether in 1994.
Cold War Cartoons – Duck and Cover with Bert the Turtle
Monday, August 27th, 2018
Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made with the help of schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York, this cartoon was shown in schools as the cornerstone of the government’s “duck and cover” public awareness campaign.
According to the United States Library of Congress (which declared the film “historically significant” and inducted it for preservation into the National Film Registry in 2004), it “was seen by millions of schoolchildren in the 1950s.”
Duck and Cover lyrics:
There was a turtle by the name of Bert
and Bert the turtle was very alert;
when danger threatened him he never got hurt
he knew just what to do…
He’d duck!
And cover!
Duck!
And cover! (male) He did what we all must learn to do
(male) You (female) And you (male) And you (deeper male) And you!’
Duck, and cover!’
School for Assassins
Friday, August 10th, 2018Why? Because I hate Commies, that’s why!
This video was made by the US Information Agency in 1982, just when the pressure was being increased against Communism by the Reagan administration.
