On one hand, the Cold War was kind of depressing. Cf. the Lewis Black clip below, which includes the phrase "nuclear fuck holocaust." On the other hand, there was something charmingly absurd about the whole thing. We knew who the enemy was, we knew what a war would look like, and we knew we would all die. Kids today don't appreciate how refreshing it is to know who you're supposed to hate.
If you fall on the nostalgia side of Cold War reminiscence, the EU has been developing a series of jogging trails and biking paths that might be up your alley. The final route of the whole project just got published in the form of a brochure. The Iron Curtain Trail now stretches from Finland, down through central Germany, along the outer border of the former Czechoslovakia, and between Hungary and Austria. The trail stretches 4,225 miles, winding its way along the old Warsaw Pact-NATO border.]]>