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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video examining thehistory of the Eurovision Song Contest. This includes it's origins, its development over time, as well as what the contest reflects of European politics, culture, and what it means to be European. How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #TheColdWar #eurovision #Eurovision2025 #eurovisionsongcontest #Europe **SOURCES** Dean Vuletic, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, Bloomsbury, 2018 Anna Boulos, “Nil Points, Douze Points, and Everything In Between: An Analysis of Political Voting Bias in the Eurovision Song Contest” April 2012 Bolton, Doug. "Terry Wogan Dead: His Best Eurovision Quotes from Almost Four Decades of Hosting." The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/terry-wogan-dead-best-eurovision-song-contest-quotes-funny-a6844651.html. Kavanagh, Adrian, and Caoilfhionn D'Arcy. "All You Need to Know About Eurovision Voting Patterns." Maynooth University, https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/all-you-need-know-about-eurovision-voting-patterns. Cotterill, Paul. "Eurovision & My Dad. There’s Something Really Quite Sad…" BickerRecord (blog), May 13, 2017.