Tag: cold war

• 151- Exclaves of West Berlin (4): Steinstücken and Wüste Mark

  almost 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  Steinstücken is the southernmost part of the Berlin Ortsteil (borough) of Wannsee, almost adjacent to the UFA film studios. From east to west, it’s no more than 500 metres wide, north to south: 300 metres. About 200 people call Steinstücken home. Before 1972, it was completely isolated inside ... Read More

• 114 - Exclaves of West Berlin (3): the Böttcherberg Troika

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    The Berlin neighbourhood of Wannsee is situated on an island cut off from the mainland by a number of lakes and canals. Before the unification of both Germanys, the island was the southwesternmost part of West Berlin. But two salients of Potsdam (then East Germany) protrude onto the island from ... Read More

• 107 - Asia From Irkutsk

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    How delicious is this: obviously a sister-map to the one in posting #103 (‘Europe From Moscow’), but this time applying an unusual perspective to the Cold War situation in Asia in the early nineteen fifties. The map, found here at the University of San Diego and originally published in Time ... Read More

• 103 - Europe From Moscow (in 1952)

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  Perspective and the right choice of colours can help to infuse a map with meaning, this one being a very good example. The map is entitled Europe From Moscow, and was featured in the Time Magazine issue of March 10, 1952. At that time, the world was dominated by the Cold War between the Soviet ... Read More

• 102 - Exclaves of West Berlin (2): Laßzinswiesen

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  Not much info on this, the third (*) of former West Berlin’s ten tiny enclaves within former East Germany. This website on Berlin exclaves merely mentions that Laßzinswiesen “was an exclave just north of Laßzinssee, only tens of meters from West-Berlin but completely unaccessible from the West ... Read More

• 99 - Exclaves of West Berlin (1): Erlengrund and Fichtewiese

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  On August 13, 1961, the East German authorities erected a physical barrier in Berlin to prevent their citizens from ‘voting with their’ feet – i.e. fleeing to West Germany. This barrier, consisting of fences, minefields and/or huge blocks of concrete, eventually ran along the entire Deutsch ... Read More

• 92 - Secret Soviet Plans for the Complete Removal of the North American Continent

  about 5 years ago

  Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

  This recently unclassified, formerly top secret document released by the Russian State Archives illustrates (quite literally) the lengths the Soviets wanted to go to in order to win the Cold War: not just the defeat of the capitalist USA, but its complete removal off the face of the earth. The ... Read More