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Image 1 — A question about what happened to certain political party items over time.
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A question about what happened to certain political party items over time.

Tried asking over at r/History and r/AskHistorians, but I couldn't post my images. Aside from obvious stuff, like the destruction of most Nazi era German statues, flags and the like, or things like weapons, vehicles or uniforms, what happened with items that one wouldn't really think much about that were ubiquitous in certain regimes of the past(and some current)? Propaganda posters, party banners, parade items, those giant flags, public portraits, rally backdrops, etc. Even something unusual but significant, like the facade of the former Fascist Party HQ in Italy, or the old portraits of Marx and Lenin one would see hanging on the side of a building in North Korea, but they no longer display, or like the time Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union held a joint military parade in 1939, with floats and banners displaying the swastika AND the hammer and sickle, as in image no. 4. I watch a lot of documentaries about geopolitical history, and wonder what happened to some of the items you used to see all over the place. Whether it's Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, North Korea, socialist Albania and Romania, the time Britain had a Fascist Movement in the 30s(what happened to their flags and banners?), on and on - you get the idea. Is most of it just stored in a warehouse somewhere, destroyed, in a museum or in private hands? I know it's a case-by-case basis, as not every country is going to do the same thing, but it's just a curiosity I have.

u/Ok-Oil4642 — 1 day ago
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MY CIA mom (center left) traveling with fellow agency personnel and others to Europe on the Queen Mary to facilitate Dulles' "Congress for Cultural Freedom" founding event in Berlin 1950.

u/JohnGonyea — 4 days ago
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Việt Nam: chia cắt, tương tàn và nỗi đau thống nhất trong lịch sử hiện đại (phần đầu)

u/Slow-Property5895 — 5 days ago

Cold War books and documentaries.

Hi there, could I get some recommendations of the greatest Cold War books and documentaries? I'm specially interested in the space race

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u/wxheisen — 3 days ago
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Saw an F111 in person a few weeks back

Coolest shit I've seen in a while. Asked the guy at the airfield if I could go check it out, he said go nuts. Way bigger than I thought it would be.

u/Only_Impression4100 — 7 days ago
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My ARDC father taking a break from duty at newly established Cape Canaveral in 1950.

u/JohnGonyea — 4 days ago
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Found this Cold War era, East/West Berlin, jacket at the thrift store today.

Made by Etonic. Haven’t been able to find a similar one online to find out exactly when/where it was made.

u/billcom6 — 6 days ago
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Planned Swedish nuclear targets in Poland and East Germany, to be bombed by the supersonic Saab A36 if invaded by the Warsaw Pact. The targets were large harbors that could support an invasion. Both the nuclear weapons program and the A36 were cancelled in 1958.

u/ParrishRose1 — 9 days ago