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dellish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Challenge her exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
l also had Chernobyl in mind at first. It was a big thing, as it affected life as a kid in Europe directly.
But then I remembered all the news stories surrounding the Anti-Pershing protests.
These were in 1983, the year in which humanity perhaps was closest to complete annihilation ever.
Yes, the 80s were wild.
Oh, right the protests against nuclear rearmament in Europe. I was actually part of the “human chain” demo, somewhere between Ulm and Neu-Ulm. Together with my teddy, which got us photographed for the regional newspaper.
Wow, that is actually really cool!
So maybe I’ve seen you on TV 40 years ago, as I totally remember the human chain!
I think it was the first time I heard of “Neu-Ulm”, and since then the name has always been somehow connected with the helicopter images of the protests for me.
I only remember it because they wheeled out the TV’s in the middle of school to watch it. Why did they do that?
Because teacher Christa McAuliffe was onboard. I believe they previously broadcast earlier shuttle launches, but by 1986 they were no longer novel; putting a teacher onboard who was planning to teach some lessons in space made educators more interested and so many schools pulled out the TVs to show the launch live. Turned out to be a different kind of education than they expected.
1986 was wild experience as a kid here in Finland. Chernobyl, Challenger, Olaf Palme got shot and Mikkeli Hostage crisis/Jakomäki Bank Robbery that ended up in explosion seen on tv.
LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Challenger is my first, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union