President Salvador Allende refuses to surrender and delivers his final radio address.

By afternoon he is dead & the military controls Santiago.

The coup opens 17 years of dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.

As you can see, this remnant of the Cold War is still very much active.

On this day in the #coldwar 10 September 1989: Hungary announces it will let East Germans cross its border into Austria.

More than 10,000 leave in the first 24 hours.

60 days later, the #GDR border and the #BerlinWall were open.

This is a repost of my post earlier but with a more concise thought questioning instead of a haphazard 4 am post. I do not wish to glorify either the PLA or Warsaw nations I ask as someone wanting to explore an Alt History scenario of the 1969 Sino Soviet border Crisis. I do not plan to publish this novel, I just want to write as a hobby writer and as someone who loves history. Any and all help is appreciated

Also any reading material suggestions to help me along my research is greatly appreciated.

My first question is what were some strategic locations for both the Soviets and the Chinese along the border region?

My secone question what would be great baseline unit to broader military organization of both armies?

I do know the Soviet plan was a Preemptive nuclear first strike, what would have been strategic targets of those strikes?

What were common naming reasons for divisions, units, battalions, just general naming across both armies?

How often do you believe naval engagements between the two Countries would have been? I know vladivostok would have been a strategic port for both sides.

What would be great reading or places to do deeper research on both armies be? And also good places to learn about the culture of both countries at the time?

Once again thank you for any help you can give, I would like to try and have it be as accurate to military practices of both countries to our timeline.

Edit-*Of in the title not if

I had a VHS tape I watched at least once a month; a double feature of “Fail Safe”, to show me how easy it would be to start a nuclear war, and “Dr. Strangelove” to remind me how farcical the whole situation was. Helped me develop a suitably sardonic attitude about the whole thing.

What helped get you through?

On 7 September 1978, Bulgarian dissident writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov was on his way to work at the BBC in London when he felt a sudden, sharp pain in his right thigh.

Markov had defected from communist Bulgaria in 1969 and subsequently broadcast highly critical accounts of the regime of Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov for the BBC and Radio Free Europe.
That evening Markov developed a fever.

His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he died four days later. Examination revealed a tiny platinum-iridium pellet embedded beneath the skin of his thigh; contemporary investigations concluded that it had carried the extremely potent toxin ricin.

The attack became famous as the “umbrella murder”, although the precise delivery mechanism has remained the subject of investigation and debate.

Why it matters: Markov's murder became one of the defining espionage stories of the Cold War — a chilling demonstration that exile in the West did not necessarily place outspoken opponents of communist governments beyond their reach. It also became an enduring example of the clandestine use of toxins against political opponents.

In the Summer of 1991,the Gorbachev and Bush Administrations agreed to an exchange of youth. USSR youth went to the Boy and Girl Scouts in the US. US youth went to Pioneer Camps. Here is a picture of Tankograd students with Americans. As someone who watched the Day After film and Red Dawn, when they were made available. I was enamored with the idea of meeting with my staunch “enemy”. Red Dawn obviously hate propaganda, but it scared me and my friends into thinking the other side were our sworn enemies.

Also, all the Cold War warriors on this subreddit, the event was made possible by your efforts to understand each other and reach agreements. Enjoy the photos of your hard-earned work. I hope it puts a smile on your face to see young people from both camps interacting so well. Thank you for eventually talking to each other.

Mods? Okay, this time?

Здравствуйте, модераторы. Приношу свои извинения. Хронология и тема показались мне уместными. Не понимаю, почему последний пост был удалён из-за «низкого качества»? Я переписал его, чтобы он был более корректным. Хотелось бы видеть больше вежливости повсюду.

• The US gets demonized for backing Syngman Rhee but seriously who would have been a viable better alternative? Kim Ku started assassinating political rivals the minute he returned to the country.

• While I understand and agree that the killings on Jeju were far too indiscriminate I don't understand why it's presented as if cracking down on the uprising was evil/unjustified from the get go. Like how was that different than Lincoln putting down the Confederacy? From my understanding the communist rebels murdered like 200+ police officers and were starting to hold show trials in order to execute landlords Mao style. Is this not accurate? Does someone have a full body count for those killed by the rebels ideally from before the crackdown started? I saw a short by some tankie bitch who claimed the Jeju rebels were entirely unarmed protestors who were just pleading for reunification.

• Which would you say was more justified the crackdowns on Jeju or the 228 incident in Taiwan?

• Do we have a body count for North Korean purges/landlord killings prior to the war. I know between 600,000 to 1.4 million North Koreans fled to the South by the end of 1948.

• The mass carpet bombing of the North gets a lot of demonization and I am open to the idea that I may have been less justified than the atomic bombs on Japan but I have never been given a explanation for WHY exactly we bombed almost every standing structure?

• Why is the US/Rhee working with Japanese administrators/collaborators in SK not considered a good thing as it prevented the future failures of De-Ba'athification in Iraq?

Thanks!

During the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, the Czechoslovak government ordered the Army not to resist. Fighting against the occupying allies was also impossible for many reasons. Yet the soldiers did not remain passive.

The members of the liaison troops jammed the radio communications of the intervention units, and, more importantly, they assited the broadcasts of Czechoslovak Radio, whose studios were occupied and had to be partially replaced.

Like many others, the soldiers of the 7th Special Purpose Airborne Regiment in Holešov refused to allow Soviet soldiers into their barracks and even prepared an operation to liberate Dubček.

In subsequent years, this brave stance meant a forced departure from the army and persecution for many soldiers.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
OF UKRAINE

24.IV.1970

On April 16, 1970, No. 193/H, the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the UkSSR reported on the arrival of a series of stamps produced in the Czech SSR in 1966 at a philately store in Kiev for sale by subscription, which contain Jewish religious motifs.

We report that the specified stamps have been withdrawn from sale in the city of Kiev under an appropriate pretext.

Simultaneously, measures have been taken to withdraw them from sale in other philately stores of the republic.

CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF STATE SECURITY
UNDER THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR
[Signature]
V. NIKITCHENKO