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What It Was Like Living In Berlin During The Cold War Keystone/Getty Images By S. Flannagan/Feb. 2, 2021 11:04 am EDT "Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin." Thus spoke Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at a gathering in Yugoslavia in 1963, according to Alpha History. Khrushchev's metaphor, coarse as it may be, provides a vivid and memorable starting point for thinking about the German capital, which, after being ravaged by aerial bombardments and brutal street battles in the fina...

The hero of the Berlin Airlift During the Berlin Airlift, one US pilot threw candy from his aeroplane for the kids in West Berlin. Since then, children have honored him for his work. DW met the Candy Bomber. In the summer of 1948, the young American pilot Gail S. Halvorsen ran across the landing strip at Tempelhof airport in West Berlin. Thirty children stood behind the barbed wire fence. "Gimme chocolate," they asked the 27-year-old. "They weren't begging, they were just asking for chocolate," he remembers. But the pilot only had two pieces of gum in his pocket: "Two! For 30 kids!"

Brexit A horrible history of break-ups bodes ill for Brexit Britain WhatsApp Across an abyss of time that turns out to be less than four years ago, Theresa May stood up in the House of Commons as prime minister to lecture MPs on a point borrowed from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Language is not passive: it can shape the events it is used to describe. “I prefer not to use the term of divorce from the European Union,” she said, “because very often when people get divorced they don’t have a very good relationship afterwards.” Those guys took her tip. Jacob Rees-Mogg started talking abo...

Ukrainians what weapons they need to defend themselves against russian aggression. to nick kristof saying if we don't do something the ukrainians will never forgive us. people not usually criticizing barack obama echoing what mccain is saying. >> can i give a quick example? i'm sorry, go ahead. >> hey. actually, your microphone had fallen off. it was a slight of hand. i didn't want to talk to meacham. go ahead. >> i'd say vladimir putin understands strength. and for us to say that we wouldn't give them defensive weapons and mres which they are even afraid to fly in on u.s. aircraft that we hav...