“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these herds’ migratory patterns: The barbed wire, electric fences, watchtowers, and heavily armed guards that once lined the Iron Curtain are long gone, but red deer wouldn’t dare jump the border.” >full text (c)ATLANTIC, 2014
Archive for Iron curtain
No End of the Cold War for Deer in Germany
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cold War, Europe, Iron curtain, migratory patterns, red deer, wildlife on 6 February 2014 by delclemStalin’s Shadow
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Anne Applebaum, Central Europe, Communism, Eastern Europe, histroy, Iron curtain, Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union, World War II on 18 January 2013 by delclem
“Having brilliantly documented the horror of Stalin’s Soviet terror machine in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, author Anne Applebaum now offers a bulky sequel, Iron Curtain, about the brutal effort of that same machine to crush and colonize Eastern Europe in the first decade after World War II. Her evidence, once again drawn from archival research and some survivor interviews, is overwhelming and convincing. But the heart of her story is hardly news.” >review & photo (c) NYT, 2012
Bird brain or canard?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags birds, Communism, Iron curtain on 24 October 2011 by delclem
“Birds with smaller brains, such as the goldfinch (above) have not been able to cope with the changes unleashed by the demise of Communism in eastern Europe, scientists found.” Article (c) The Telegraph, 2011
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