Cold War in Europe trivia thread...

[jon m.]

Name those men!!

Who are the two men pictured: the man on the left and the man speaking into the microphone?????
Trust me.....you DO know who these men are.

[ehrentitle]

I imagine one is Ulbricht. Kevin

[jon m.]

CORRECT. That is the only answer I was seeking.

The man speaking into the microphone is Erich Weinert.

Your turn.

[Ralph P]

Jon - Thanks for the interesting question involving the picture of who the persons are...

So whose turn is it???

[jon m.]

Technically it is Kevin's (ehrentitle) turn.

[ehrentitle]

I'll defer to Jon. Kevin

[jon m.]

Anyone who wants to post a question, go ahead and do so.

[Gaffken]

I'll throw a small one out if no one else is:

--on some West German bridges, what were the small, square cut-outs that appeared on certain areas of the bridge's steel I-beams?


Gaffken

[Gaffken]

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[ehrentitle]

They were spots designated for explosives for bridge demolition to stop the advancing Warsaw Pact forces.

[Gaffken]

Correct! I must be in the presence of some old combat engineers...

[ehrentitle]

Correct! I must be in the presence of some old combat engineers...

Nope...old infantryman with several years in Berlin and West Germany. Also still remember the European Fire Fighting Kit that was issued to every company sized unit.

[AR-11]

I had a new question:

Who am I ?

-I am wellknown and most loved in Southern America and Eastern block but nearly unknown in my father******180;s land
- my friends was Yassir Arafat, Erich Honnecker, Salvador Allende, Victor Jarra, Ernesto Che Guevara e.t.c.
- I was three times merried, my first wife and my oldest daughter still live in my father******180;s land
- I was a a singer and actor
- I made spaghetti-western but seroius films in the eastern block

[ehrentitle]

Too easy...American actor and singer Dean Reed. Tom Hanks is supposidly going to do a film on his life. Kevin

[ehrentitle]

Here are some websites relating to Dean Reed -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Reed

http://www.deanreed.de/deutsch/index.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5482076

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...466847,00.html