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Episode 17: The Balancing Act contains several fascinating nuggets, as the US did its best to balance the needs of its policy towards South Korea - the luring of its enemies t...
2018-03-25 22:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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PATRONS! Out now is episode 5 of 1956! Those supporting us at $5 and above can avail of the special perks which enable them to feast on this exclusive series – have yo...
2018-03-23 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello my lovely Patrons! I just wanted to take this opportunity to say hi, and to ask how you are all doing. I am aware that I haven't checked in with you guys in a while, so I thought it'd make sense...
2018-03-22 12:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 16: Selective Perspective examines further the American policy towards South Korea in late spring 1950. We open the episode with the arrival of America's ambassador to South ...
2018-03-20 23:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 15: Ignorance Is Bliss examines the behaviour of the US towards its South Korean ally. Since the American strategy was now to lure North Korea into attacking, we'll se...
2018-03-19 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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In the final part of our conversation with Tomi, we talk through the process of telling his story. How hard was it, why did he feel compelled to speak after so many years of s...
2018-03-16 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Tomi's story continues, as he talks us through his arrival in Belsen, a place his family members knew nothing of, and expected would be their final destination. Tragically, as...
2018-03-14 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today history friends we have something incredibly special lined up for you. All this week, we'll be letting loose three parts of an interview I did with Holocaust survivor To...
2018-03-11 23:29:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 14: The Race To Ruin examines the Asian theatre in spring 1950, and the different concerns which the North Koreans, Soviet and Chinese leaders grappled with. At the apex of these c...
2018-03-05 00:16:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 1.4 of 1956 - The Eventful Year is out NOW!
Episode 4 – The People Are Revolting examines the immediate storm caused by Khrushchev’s denunciations of Stalin in late Febru...
2018-03-01 22:11:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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What an exciting time! The third episode of PART ONE of 1956 is out NOW! What does this mean? Err... see below!
Episode 1.3 – "Do We Have The Courage To Tell The Truth?", opens wit...
2018-02-28 22:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 13: A Useful Bombshell examines the immediate reactions to the Sino-Soviet Alliance in the US. Now that their wedge strategy had been torpedoed, and the Truman adminis...
2018-02-25 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 2 follows on from where our first episode left off. Here, the power struggle between the Soviet Union’s top men is in full swing, and power plays, character assassin...
2018-02-23 11:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode we’ll meet these figures – the so-called ‘collective leadership’ of the Soviet Union, which included such heavy hitters as Molotov, Malenkov, Lavrenti Beria, ...
2018-02-23 00:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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1956 is divided into two parts, the first tackles the question of life after Stalin, the second examines the run up to the Suez Crisis. Here in our introduction to Part 1, we'll see ...
2018-02-23 00:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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IT'S HERE AT LAST!
1956 - The Eventful Year is a brand new series designed to bring you closer to the events of this incredible year in history. While on the surface, 1956 may appear...
2018-02-23 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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**REMEMBER, to those of you at the $5 level and above, 1956 - The Eventful Year starts this FRIDAY, 23rd Feb!**
In Episode 12, A Treaty of 'Friendship', we examine Mao Zedong's visit...
2018-02-19 00:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is a VERY detailed episode, and can be best divided into three parts.
1) Explaining the different NSC reports and papers, and how they were reconciled as new developments af...
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Episode 10: Sino-American Talks Part 2 concludes our take on where the Sino-American diplomacy led as 1949 became 1950. It provides a crucial bit of background to how the US reacted ...
2018-02-11 23:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yay! We've finally had a Q & A, where you guys sent me a variety of lovely questions and I did my best to answer! Within are such questions as:
What part of the KW do you f...
2018-02-08 23:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 9: Sino-American Talks Part 1 introduces us to the OTHER side of Chinese diplomacy between 1949-50; that involving the US, and how Washington attempted to wrest ...
2018-02-07 00:19:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 8: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 4 is the final episode examining the scene in Moscow, where the defining alliance between the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union was sig...
2018-02-05 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 7: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 3 picks up in this developing story, as the Chinese and Soviets cautiously move ever closer to one another in world affairs. Stalin's mission was clear. He w...
2018-01-31 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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IMP: Liu Shaoqi is Liu 'Shao-Chi' - NOT Liu 'Shao-Kwee'. Apologies for the mispronunciation! Love me anyway?
Episode 6: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 2, continues the story from where...
2018-01-29 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 5: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 1 examines, as you may have guessed, the detailed and complex Sino-Soviet relationship, as we build towards the signing of the Sino-Soviet al...
2018-01-24 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 4: The Cat's Mao looks at Mao Zedong, the man, the myth, the legend, the disgusting, horrible war criminal and mass murderer who...ahem. Sorry about that. Mao Zedong remains a cont...
2018-01-22 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Patrons! Episode 3 of the Korean War is out now for all Patrons at the $2 level and above - just like all episodes in the Korean War, this latest episode comes to you AD FREE!...
2018-01-19 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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In Episode 2: The Force of Peace, we examine the founding moments of the United Nations, where the idea for it came from, why it was established and how it developed as an ins...
2018-01-17 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 1: America Dawns, looks at the situation which greeted US policymakers between 1945-50. As an episode it serves as a good roundup of all we've learned in the Cold War Crash C...
2018-01-15 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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In the final episode of this miniseries, we look at the several crises which accompanied the answering of the German question. The Berlin Blockade, as well as the Prague Coup,...
2018-01-12 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post