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Cold War

09/11/2014

Where Were You When…?

I feel like the fact it’s both Remembrance Sunday and 25 years since the Berlin Wall came down is monumental, but I don’t really feel qualified to write huge political essays on the foolishness of war and European politics since I didn’t exist 25 years ago, let alone during World War I. Looks kind of half-arsed… Continue reading

Fuckin’ Idiots, Government and Politics, November 2014, Photogenius

‘Child 44’, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Europe, fuckin’ idiots, Remembrance Sunday, Tower of London, wars, where were you when
13/06/2011

“For You Ze War Ist Ovahh.” Wait, Wrong Moustached Dictator.

Francesca’s List of Ways to Revise the Cold War Go and see the new X-Men film, which I’m told is about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Read Watchmen. Alternate reality, psh. It involves American paranoia. Watch Rocky IV. I think that’s the one with the blatant propaganda… And, sadly, Sylvester Stallone has more obvious surgery in this… Continue reading

Internet, June 2011, School, THE WORLD *head in hands*

BBC Bitesize, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, exams, GCSEs, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, revision, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, Watchmen, X Men
14/09/2010

Politics, Preachers and Pansy

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Complaints, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Paywall, Photogenius, School, THE WORLD *head in hands*

Bible, Christians, Cold War, communism, domain name, electirc guitar, Frank and Pansy, Frank Iero, History lessons, hypocrisy, Indifferent Ignorance, Music, My Chemical Romance, Red Shirts, Religious Studies, School, Soviet Russia, Stalin, stickers, The Stig, URL, US Civil War, USSR, WordPress

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Cold War

Where Were You When…?

“For You Ze War Ist Ovahh.” Wait, Wrong Moustached Dictator.

Politics, Preachers and Pansy