THOSE signs are still everywhere

It's all for tourists

Nah screw that, our *Southern border* is exactly where we need a checkpoint charlie... badly!

Was there in Berlin 11 years later during the summer of 1972 as a USMA cadet platoon leader assigned to B Company 3/6th Infantry Berlin Brigade at McNair Barracks in the Zahlendorf section of Berlin. Made the orientation trip into East Berlin and rode in a convoy from Checkpoint Alpha to Helmstedt, West Germany on our way to the Major Training Area in Hohenfels, West Germany. Was quite an experience for my first trip to Europe. One I will never forget and always treasure. It was a completely different and dangerous world

I operated in the Clayallee Army Air Force Exchange Service as a supply officer for the PX. 1977-80.

Damn good weapon !

The good old days....when America didn't take any shit. Now our president runs and cowers from a bunch of 7th century barbarians.

was better than the weapons selling and money funnelling garbage they do these days. the 'cold' war was probably the most consequential in history.

And now it seems more likely that the leftist will bury us, but they are our own home grown left.

He meant it politically and metaphorically, but it still carried an ominous tone, it sure worried me, at the time.

We did not get the M14 until later in 1961.

In June of 1962, we used the M-1 Garand in Basic and the M-14 in advanced training. So at this time the M-14 was being phased in.

*laugh in rice farmers*

Soviet tanks were lackluster as fuck bro

What's propaganda or over-the-top about it. This happened. All they did was put music and narration to footage they didn't have on-site sound for.

No shit sherlock. The point is not whether this happened or not. Read my comment. The point is that the production value of this campy piece of work is so low, it pales in comparison with the propaganda of today. Also, considering the fact that I walked through "Checkpoint Charlie" myself in June of 1990 -- just a few days after it was dismantled -- except, this time, I walked through it from "East Berlin" into "West Berlin" without nary a glance, let alone a single military guard or piece of equipment nearby, is further commenting how far we've come. Looking at this stuff now is almost hysterically funny how in the world we got our collective panties into a knot over basically nothing. Drama, drama, drama.

At that time, the Cold War was getting very close to becoming a *HOT* war. The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted about a year later.

HI Don't forget this was an unprecedented situation! Both sides wanted Berlin for themselves. ' it's mine!' ' No it's mine, I got here first'.

@@user-yx8bh9gu4t Those were different times, and news-reels were different too, but since you were there you know it was no joke at that time. The dramatic music with the narration seems to go overboard when lookin at it today.

None of us would be here today if the Soviet Red Army were to do that.

Ze mikrofon vaz tu clouz tu mai maut herrrr amerikane

Well, dude! Nothing sounds more eerie then an american trying to speak german: "Hello, Frowline! Oktoberfest! Do will ficken?"...😂

@Eyyoh755 Agreed - if you're a native English speaker and can't speak German without a pronounced English accent, then don't ever speak German in public. It makes me want to tear my ears off. The same goes native German speakers trying to speak English...not in public!