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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by carabiner on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:00PM (#34635153)
yeah 1940s lol... US and USSR were allies then. This is not Historian News.
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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by LarryMullins on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:44PM (#34635573)
If you want to get particular, the Berlin Blockade/Airlift was in the 40s. The Cold War started in the late 40s.
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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by iso1631 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:09PM (#34635803)
"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent"

That was 1946 and the start of the cold war

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Re:Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon ... by jameshart on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:14PM (#34635842)
And if the US had started shooting down MiGs in the next couple of years after that the cold war would not have remained cold very long.
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