It’s the third chapter in a podcast miniseries that looks at the fall of the Iron Curtain and the popular culture of the Cold War. To start us off, I look at what happened in Eastern Europe from March to May 1990 with a special focus on the revolution in Poland. Then, I dive into educational/propaganda films of the 1950s and early 1960s by looking at “Duck and Cover” and “Red Nightmare.”

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After the cut, here are some extras from this episode …

Here’s where you can watch “Duck and Cover”:

And here’s where you can watch “Red Nightmare”:

Here is the song from the beginning of the episode, “Great Atomic Power”:

Here’s the song from the end of the episode, “The Gap”:

And for more information about “Duck and Cover” as well as a number of other pieces of Cold War history and ephemera, check out one of my sources for this episode, CONELRAD.com