This question only makes sense to those who did not live through it. If your main source of information was movies and TV dramas, it was a boring fake war. read more
For some reason even the best movies about the Cold War were low-budget, often black and white, and most of the action was some men sitting in a war room plotting. Visually there is a great similarity between gangster movies and Cold War movies- men in a dark room plotting against other men in a dark room. read more
The Iron Curtain The iron curtain was an imaginary dividing line that divided the NATO countries, supported by the United States, and the Communist countries, supported by the Soviet Union. read more
The Cold War was not simply a shouting match with no real casualties between the US and USSR, as some on this web site have claimed. It was a global conflict in which millions were killed on four out of the seven continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, South America). read more