Do you, like me, miss the idea of a known enemy, bad dictators with ambitions to gain world domination, with an inclination for hardcore propaganda, censorship, obsolete technology, ridiculous marching – and sexy secret agents named Olga Barkova (if they ever existed)?

20 years after the demise of the communists and the Soviet empire, I find that, even though I feared and loathed the communists and the Soviet threat, that I miss having them around. Furthermore, being a history buff, I fear that all those relics we used to despise are about to pass into oblivion.

The project is in its early stages, with hardly any content at all, but I hope to offer a respectable collection of items within short.

Meanwhile, please enjoy.

Lunde, Norway, 9 November 2009

Jarle Petterson

Do you remember 9 November 1989? I know I do. My oldest son was 14 months old – about a year older than the boy in this clip, and the entire East block seemed to disintegrate, more or less overnight. Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall
– and the new Europe.