ISSUE 163 - July 5, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Mekeel's & Stamps
Stamps and the Cold War
Part 1: Introduction
by Steven Turechek
The Cold War was that 45 year period of simmering ideological conflict between capitalist and communist, democrat and autocrat, liberator and oppressor. The Cold War began immediately following the end of WWII. It infiltrated nearly every nook and cranny of our existence, including this hobby, until ending quite abruptly at the time of the first Gulf War (Desert Storm).
Sometimes the Cold War boiled over into full-fledged shooting wars, though not on the global scale of WWII. Countries such as Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and others (including much of the middle-east) played host to warring armies. But those conflicts all occurred . . .
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