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Title: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Eraserhead on March 11, 2009, 05:22:09 PM Yes (1986)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Boris on March 11, 2009, 05:49:17 PM after the fall of the Berlin Wall but prior to German reunification
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on March 11, 2009, 06:45:50 PM Of course.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: © tweed on March 11, 2009, 06:52:35 PM late 1990 so I'll go 'no'
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Kaine for Senate '18 on March 11, 2009, 07:05:34 PM No (1993).
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: memphis on March 11, 2009, 10:48:20 PM I was in first grade when the Berlin Wall fell and I remember my teacher trying to explain to us why it was such a big deal.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Associate Justice PiT on March 11, 2009, 10:58:00 PM I was born ~5 months before the USSR was dissolved, so yes.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: dead0man on March 11, 2009, 11:56:13 PM Of course. I graduated High School before the Soviet Union fell (by about 6 months).
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: The Mikado on March 12, 2009, 12:26:49 AM Yes (normal)
Normal literally: I'd expect the majority of people alive today were born between 1945-1989. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Nixon in '80 on March 12, 2009, 12:52:05 AM I'll go with Yes (1988), though it could be argued it was over by then.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: RosettaStoned on March 12, 2009, 01:48:39 AM Yes.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Daniel Z on March 12, 2009, 03:13:11 AM Yes (1988)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: opebo on March 12, 2009, 06:20:41 AM I was born roughly at the height of 'America' at least in the sense of the well-being of most of its people. Its been all downhill since the late sixties.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Brittain33 on March 12, 2009, 03:50:13 PM Yes, albeit during that brief period when there was no Soviet domination of Poland. (1976)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Eraserhead on March 12, 2009, 07:33:49 PM Yes, albeit during that brief period when there was no Soviet domination of Poland. (1976) Zing! Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Smash255 on March 12, 2009, 08:38:59 PM Yes (1982)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Eraserhead on March 12, 2009, 10:11:32 PM We need more olds on here.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Smid on March 12, 2009, 10:50:18 PM When I was born, the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on March 13, 2009, 12:39:21 AM Born during the Vietnam War (1966).
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: ag on March 13, 2009, 06:25:19 PM I am old.
I remember I cried when Brezhnev died :) Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: k-onmmunist on March 13, 2009, 07:11:02 PM No. (1993)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Storebought on March 20, 2009, 03:55:36 PM Absolutely, yes. I was also born in the midst of the Iran crisis!
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: GMantis on March 20, 2009, 04:02:13 PM Yes, though it can be argued that by then (1986) it was coming to an end.
And I see that MODU hasn't seen this thread yet :) Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Lief 🗽 on March 22, 2009, 03:50:02 PM Between the Fall of the Wall and German Reunification.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Landslide Lyndon on March 22, 2009, 04:31:48 PM We need more olds on here. Present! (1975) Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: 2952-0-0 on March 22, 2009, 04:44:39 PM Born two weeks after the Berlin Wall fell.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: The Ex-Factor on March 23, 2009, 05:04:02 PM Yes (1990), if we're going by the end of the Cold War = collapse of the Soviet Union
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Frodo on March 23, 2009, 05:26:03 PM Yes.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: All Along The Watchtower on March 23, 2009, 05:29:56 PM Very close to the end of it.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Purple State on March 23, 2009, 08:49:04 PM No (1990)
I'm surprised so many were born during. And not like right at the edge either. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Smid on March 23, 2009, 10:18:58 PM A month after Reagan received enough delegates to win the Republican Primary.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Brittain33 on March 24, 2009, 08:28:14 AM No (1990) I'm surprised so many were born during. And not like right at the edge either. I was pretty shocked when I discovered forum 25.0 and that the median poster here was your age, not older. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Keystone Phil on March 24, 2009, 11:22:00 AM Yes
In fact, I was born about two weeks before Reagan made his 1988 trip to the Evil Empire. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Mint on March 24, 2009, 12:18:23 PM Yes (1988).
I thought you were 10 years older than that. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on March 24, 2009, 12:35:56 PM Yes, right before the beginning of the end started (1983)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Joe Biden 2020 on March 24, 2009, 06:57:36 PM Yes, right before the beginning of the end started (1983) 1982 for me. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: DownWithTheLeft on March 26, 2009, 04:14:04 PM Arguably (April 1991)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on March 26, 2009, 04:15:37 PM Arguably (April 1991) Fail. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: DownWithTheLeft on March 26, 2009, 04:21:15 PM Please get a textbook, the USSR did not dissolve until December 25, 1991, which arguably would be the official end of the Cold War
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: afleitch on March 26, 2009, 06:14:01 PM Yes, Chernenko and all that.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: muon2 on March 28, 2009, 07:46:04 AM I was born at its height and grew up with bomb shelters, the space race, and civil defense drills.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Erc on March 28, 2009, 11:28:38 PM Unambiguously born during the Cold War, but not old enough to be aware of the Soviet Union being in existence.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Ban my account ffs! on March 30, 2009, 08:50:22 AM Born during the summer of 1985. It was a cool summer here so my mom didn't roast to death.
I remember in 2nd grade (fall 1992) looking at a globe that had the U.S.S.R on it (still pretty common then) and asking my mom... "what's the U.S.S.R?" and she said "It doesn't exist any more." I had really only heard of Russia. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Scam of God on March 30, 2009, 09:28:43 AM Barely (January '89). Probably this is why I'm not afraid of Communism, despite my right economic positions.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: ?????????? on March 30, 2009, 09:31:16 AM Yes, and from what I understand it was a pretty hot point in time during the CW. 1979
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Bacon King on March 30, 2009, 03:40:52 PM Yes, at the very end in 1989. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: MasterJedi on March 30, 2009, 06:44:59 PM Yes, 1987
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: RosettaStoned on April 01, 2009, 02:49:20 PM Technically it was still on. (1989)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: big bad fab on May 15, 2009, 08:45:15 AM Yes, 1970 (you wanted more old ones...)
So, between Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia, Sino-Soviet conflict, Lin Biao's death and Nixon's trip to Beijing. And I was born on July 14th, just before De Gaulle's death, in November: aware of my coming to Earth, he decided his time was over... Or, if you wish, he was so afraid... As for the end of Cold War, I would say the real date is March 1990, with a reunited Germany, as a divided Germany was both the heart and the symbol of East-West divide. Summits between Kohl, Gorbachev and Shevardnadze in southern Russia and Malta summit between Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev, in December 1989, were the real places and times where Cold War was really ended. (Before that, I remember Soviet departure from Afghanistan; I also remember vividly negotiations between Polish government and Solidarnosc, with Tadeusz Mazowiecki becoming first true non-Communist PM in an East European country since 1946. And, next, droves of East Germans heading West by trains through Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and then by foot to Austria... Gorbachev was really a great man, if only by deciding to do nothing) But, sure, Berlin's wall fall and Soviet Union's death are far more emblematic. Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Hatman 🍁 on May 15, 2009, 09:21:53 AM I don't remember the Soviet Union, but I do have an old Air Canada kid's games book from my first flight as a child. One of the games was to name the country for the flag, and it has the Soviet Union. I believe this would've been just before the breakup.
I answered yes (1986) Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Magic 8-Ball on May 15, 2009, 09:12:53 PM Yep, right at the tail end (1987).
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Senator Robert A. Taft on May 16, 2009, 03:33:46 PM Yes (1969)
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: Nym90 on May 18, 2009, 08:20:52 PM 1978. Yup.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: ChrisJG777 on June 01, 2009, 10:27:26 AM Yes, but only just. Late April, 1991.
Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: tmthforu94 on June 01, 2009, 10:30:21 AM No
March, 1994 Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: pogo stick on June 08, 2009, 07:59:34 AM Nope,
Nov. 1994 Title: Re: Were you born during the Cold War? Post by: frihetsivrare on June 12, 2009, 11:11:06 PM after the fall of the Berlin Wall but prior to German reunification |