Thomas Swick Thomas Swick moved to Warsaw at the height of the Cold War. He suffered bleak winters in gloomy concrete apartment blocks, and he experienced two very different worlds: the closed-door life of spirited friends huddled over tables at home, and the empty windswept boulevards of an Eastern European capital without street life. He also lived through events that would be seen as...
The largest Red Army base outside the Soviet Union was a 40 minute drive south of Berlin. It was just beyond where the new airport — and the old Schönefeld SXF — is today. Wünsdorf-Waldstadt was completely off limits to East Germans during those long, dark Iron Curtain years. They called it Die Verbotene Stadt (the Forbidden City). Others called the massive base ‘Little Moscow’, and I guess it...