CZ 82 Pistols: Compact Cold War Firepower 1982: War seems forever on the horizon as an icy – yet smoldering – blanket of tension grips Europe. It was the Cold War, and in the eyes of many Americans today there were only two sides: the democratic West and the Soviet East. Anything east of West Germany was just a sea of red. Enter the CZ 82 pistol, a gun that both confirms and contradicts this idea. History is rarely black and white (or red and blue in this case). The guns of the Cold War are no exception. The small, blowback CZ 82 pistol is one of those guns and a beautiful little shooter with a really cool story behind it. I learned to love surplus and