The Cold War was a truly global conflict, but one area of the map that sometimes gets ignored is the small island nation of Iceland. Find out how this small, artic nation found itself on the front lines between east and west during the second half of the 20th century.
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I sure like me some cold war content
They are still living off it, the Greenland Gap. 😎👍🙃
Chain listening station, RAF Brawdy, West Wales. 😎👍
As a Navy veteran and sonar technician why Iceland? Russian Submarines, ASW, SOSUS, P3 Orions, the Cold War was fought underwater
Let's see….um…. If you wanted to track the coming's and going's of Soviet Navy in and out of the North Atlantic…. where do you suppose might be a good place to do that from? There's a reason we're at Keflavik.
Factoid: Iceland is green and Greenland is cold and icy. Vikings thought that a name like Greenland would be more condusive toward people wanting to settle there permanently. It was a case of false advertizing. Iceland is a precarious place to live, though, since its landscape is dominated by both glaciers and active volcanoes.
Cold War a heavy loud on all NATO populations shouldered except US population …without reasonable provoke…because the USSR gradually went to weaknesses until collapsed in 1990 .only US weaponry companies gained financial benefits
29:50 This “expert’s” opinion should be disregarded. The US uses microprocessors and the Soviets use transistors? What do you think chips are made of??? If he said vacuum tubes, which many Soviet computers and radars still relied on like the MIG 25, thatd be one thing.
The real struggle is pronunciate
I mean.. it's pretty self explanatory.
Those Icelandic negotiators sure were competent…
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I really really want to make a dad joke about the ironic title of this video. I must resist, I MUST resist 😂
There were also running ships with food to ports around Norway & Finland as supplies were cut off to Murmansk during WWII. People were starving. The Murmansk Run.
I don't havva problem with the Icelandic language. Not ugly, nor especially beautiful. Due to the limitations of my device I find the sub-titles almost impossible to read therefore missing half the story.. I suuppose this production is aimed at Icelanders as much as anybody else. Perhaps they are equally annoyed at the English language portions ?
This channel is a goldmine.
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Great content. My father was stationed in Keflavik 1960 through 1963. We lived off base as well as in base housing at different times. It was without a doubt the best tour of duty that my family had during dad’s Air Force career.
They lost the gravy train by saying no