Comments on: A short stroll down Cold War Lane

By: wjk

wjk — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:42:13 +0000

your grandfather.

tomojiro — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:53:32 +0000

Shakuhachi I know who this person is.

shakuhachi — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:43:06 +0000

Ito Hirobumi

No its not him.

BK — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:48:36 +0000

Ito Hirobumi

shakuhachi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:14:57 +0000

Shakuhachi,

Your gravatar looks like a young Tojo Hideki sans glasses. Who is it?

Sonagi, I will email you the identity. I rather want to see if anyone will work out who it is. It is a significant historical figure.

Sonagi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:58:15 +0000

If that really is Hirohito, he must have had his ears pinned back for the photo.

Sonagi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:54:07 +0000

Didn’t peg you for a monarchist, Shakuhachi. Wouldn’t QE II be more appropriate for you?

Mark — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:39:51 +0000

Sonagi — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:41:54 +0000

Shakuhachi,

Your gravatar looks like a young Tojo Hideki sans glasses. Who is it?

Siberian Light — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:13:01 +0000

Amerika - when the Soviets invaded……

In 1987, ABC aired a 14 hour miniseries dramatising a Soviet occupation of America called - of course - Amerika. Here’s the trailer.

Another clip from the series is available from, of all places, the Marmot’s Hole.
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