Near the climax of the Cold War, two world superpowers exchanged a spy on a bridge in Berlin, separating the East from the West. This date is February 10, 1962. The recent weather has turned from snow to cloudy, which symbolizes the temporary thaw of US-Soviet relations, which allows them to make such a gesture and then fall into the arms race of the crazy core.
According to author Giles Whittell, there were only ten intercontinental ballistic missile nuclear warheads at each of the two ideological enemies. Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, they will have tens of thousands of people. It seems that Eisenhower's warning about the military/industrial complex has been ignored. It was during this time that the "Spy Bridge" covered the groundbreaking ground we saw for war, but fortunately it never became a reality. It is fighting in the shadows. Gilles skillfully stripped the layers of the onion dome to project the fear on the other side.
On the left side of the stage, William Fisher, a pretty curious spy from Russia. From Germany, he entered Canada through one of many pseudonyms by passenger ships in Quebec City. This date is November 1948. The Soviet Union is seriously lagging behind in nuclear technology. Since Los Alamos and the Manhattan Plan era, they have been watching the Americans enthusiastically in order to catch up. Fisher's job was to recruit and establish a spy network [Klaus Fuchs and executed Rosenbergs] throughout the United States after the last Russian spies were discovered and hit. William Fisher is a calm spy. His main concern is to establish his own deep undercover to maintain this protection at all costs. He has hardly carried out actual espionage for many years. It seems that he naturally maintains his cover as a New York artist and retires after a big publicity in the photo production business. The author points out that since no one has done more than half of the time the photo was completed, his cover should be suspicious at first glance.
This reminds me of two Nazi spies who landed in Gaspe, Quebec, during the Second World War. They lasted about fifteen minutes. They strolled to an unknown small hotel and asked for a room. They paid for a long time outdated currency and then went to the room to rest. The front desk clerk could not imagine where the two "business travelers" arrived. Did they really drag their suitcases from the next village because they arrived on diesel fuel on foot? She immediately called the Mounted Police. William Fisher should be similarly discovered by his neighbors, who attacked their own contradictory stories, but they arbitrarily attributed them to things that people would normally reinvent: a man without achievement would fabricate They are deeply impressed by others. In any case, he is obviously a liar of his history's contradictory history. He is very happy to meet him. He deeply shared their interest in art. His only contact in the United States to cultivate on barren land is Reino Hayhanen, a supporter of Wets's marriage troubles, if there is a resurrection that prohibits discussion.
Entering the right wing of the stage, Francis Gary Powers, a young Air Force expert pilot, was approached by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions in the Soviet airspace. At this point, the United States has a strategic bomber command, and large bombers are constantly equipped and ready to fly over the North Pole to launch nuclear bombs at imaginary Russian targets. The Russians will soon be able to compete with nuclear bomb technology and complete ballistic missiles across the continent in just a few minutes. The United States is in a panic and urgently needs to know how many missiles the Soviet Union has and where they are. The United States has developed a U2 aircraft that can fly 70,000 feet, far exceeding the ability of Russian fighters to intercept. They need the best pilots in the country to perform long-term missions on enemy territory, taking pictures of missile installations. For various reasons, it is unrealistic to ask the CIA to develop a spy network in the Soviet Union. This is the only way to open up to them, and perhaps the most reliable way.
The power of a very modest background from Virginia provided the CIA with an astonishing $30,000. Anyone who knows the United States will recognize the appeal of many disadvantaged Americans. In today's money, it is equivalent to about 500,000 a year. This work mainly includes training tasks. Every time you invade hostile airspace, you must get approval from the president, so there are very few flights in Russia. For those wives who are unable to accompany them to the remote air bases of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, the real enemy becomes boring and insidious.
Another key figure in the play is that no life can be said - U2 itself. Whittell expertly described the development of aircraft required to fly above the Russian MIG. It is undeniable that readers need to master the basics of aviation, but the author opens the door to readers of trading schools. He told us why this aircraft is very difficult to fly at these altitudes, why U2 is so low in thin air, why the engine must be very strong in order to keep the altitude at a step in the orbit, why the distance between stalls is Speed and over-acceleration at these altitudes require aircraft to be normally piloted by autopilots, and why pilots who are expected to be saved at 70,000 feet cannot survive. At that height, the parachute is ejected, and the human body that is kept under pressure due to the expanded elastic pressure set is expected to explode due to the expansion of the blood and the gas in the body. During the test, when the aircraft reached a high altitude, the exposed skin was not pressed by the suit. Imagine an astronaut without his suit walking in outer space. The result will be an instant red and brown from
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. It is conceivable that U2 pilots could not imagine such images, but it is more likely that they suppressed these images, allowing their subconscious to create a ubiquitous fear undercurrent for their existence, perhaps the cause of the death of many tightrope walkers. .
The canvas unfolded in this drama was also painted to perfection. Gilles calmly told us two powerful and huge competitors who tried to impress each other by shooting an open-air demonstration of a thermonuclear explosion, the power of a 100-megaton mushroom cloud and the risk of an open war between two hostile giants. Warning. Whittell took a unique perspective to understand human stupidity and how close we are to the crazy self-immolation. The input of the former General Secretary's son, Sergei Khrushchev, is invaluable. The same is true after 50 years of distance.
In this work, we look at the contemporary political system: the Soviet Union is run by dogmatic social engineers who are willing to sacrifice thousands of Gulagians to shape human behavior, accept the concept of self-denial, for the greater the country. interest. Imagine, if you want, a farmer in charge of this experiment, with exaggerated personality and the empty wisdom of Russian Donald Trump, showing a tendency to take off shoes at the United Nations and beat them as the ultimate strength of his expression. On the desktop. The peasant leader claimed that the Soviet Union was making an intercontinental ballistic missile like a sausage and would bury the United States. Take a look at the map of the Soviet Union. You can install three complete USs on its territory. In order to prove or refute the Soviet launch site's preparation to destroy the United States in an instant, it will be a difficult task, so the aggressive Khrushchev must be adopted. Therefore, excessive flight is required.
On the other hand, it is basically a class system operated by the lottery winner in the capitalist struggle of personal hegemony. Their leader, John F. Kennedy, is a more successful, ethical profiteer. John F. Kennedy joked that his father had asked exactly how many votes he needed to win the 1960 election because he was too cheap to pay for the landslide. It is important that the American proletariat wants to participate in a game of becoming a bourgeoisie in a failed way. The temptation of tempting wealth, jumping or not jumping on the sports wheel is the most important freedom of choice. Even a vulnerable group like Gary Bowers will defend death, even if it means destroying the planet, it is a right. After the Second World War, the United States was an industrial giant, and the status of ordinary citizens was much better due to the free flow of capital and credit systems. They will defend this, even if it means a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
Ironically, the world's largest Communist force in fifty years will prove that the capitalist system is sometimes the most effective. However, the American system at the time was losing its influence worldwide. Free entrepreneurs look very bleak; China, Cuba, Greece, North Korea, Indochina, Malaysia, almost all of Eastern Europe, and many others are caught in the influence of the Communist Party; therefore, there is an urgent need to catch up with many intercontinental ballistic missiles. The cold war is very real, a nuclear gunpowder is ready to ignite.
Soviet spy Fisher was arrested, convicted and sent to the Atlanta prison. The power to shoot down Russia was also imprisoned. The "Spy Bridge" was related to the details and background of the exchange in Berlin shortly after the construction of the Iron Curtain.
I will let the author Giles Whittell accept it from here because he can do better than me. Writing with the expertise of an independent journalist, Whittell weaves a few clues over time, creating a fierce and very relevant story from a holistic perspective. In my opinion, work is very good...
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