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...revolt by East German workers was suppressed with the help of Soviet troops. In 1956 came the Hungarian uprising, sparking a Soviet invasion that left thousands dead. Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks in 1968. That was followed by Moscow's enunciation of the Brezhnev Doctrine, justifying the use of Soviet force in maintaining Communist regimes in the region. In 1981, soon after Soviet divisions held maneuvers along Poland's borders, General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law to quell the independent trade union Solidarity...
...There were three other instances when I considered using nuclear weapons. One was in the '73 war, when Brezhnev threatened to intervene unilaterally in the Mideast. We could not allow Israel to go down the tube. We could not allow the Soviets to have a predominant position in the region. That had to be the bottom line. I wanted to send that message, and putting the weapons on alert did that. We did not so much want to threaten the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons as to indicate that the U.S. would resist them, conventional and nuclear. That...
...Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years...
...Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years...
...White House. Reagan emerges as a much more hands-on President than many of his aides--and their sometimes self-promoting memoirs--suggested. While recuperating from a gunshot wound in 1981, Reagan sat down in the White House solarium and drafted a four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, appealing to the their common humanity to reduce tensions between the two countries. The letter is genuine, heartfelt--and sublimely idealistic. When he showed it to top aides, they blanched; Presidents did not send such personal appeals right off the bat, they said. Reagan and his aides went back...