The Secret Submarine Corridor That Defined The Cold War | Iceland: Cold War Frontier | Timeline

The Cold War is often seen as a titanic struggle between superpowers, but that wasn't always the case. Discover how the small island nation of Iceland came to shape this enormous global conflict.

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[cynthiaalver]

I hadn't thought much about the politics involved with American bases around the world. As a teenager there were far more important things to occupy my mind. Then, at 15, I read a thriller that was set in Iceland during the 1960s. It mentioned that the Icelanders were caught in the middle of the cold war insofar as their island was considered highly strategic to NATO and was therefore peppered with US service personnel and military aircraft and materiel. They also had established a beneficial relationship with the USSR regarding trade and fishing boundaries. At that moment I was awakened to consider the wider world as more than just geography class.

[chaddwamboldt]

ATTENTION: SUBMARINER HERE - There's probably only about 5-10 minutes about Submarines in this video so don't be fooled by the ATTENTION grabbing headline, like I did, if you're interested in Submariners

[gar]

The strategic importance of Iceland for the north atlantic cannot be overlooked.
In WWII Britain militarily occupied Iceland, but invited the USA to take over the occupation as it was politically less provocative.

[thomasmaughan]

14:26 There's a blast from the past. I lived for two years in these concrete barracks.

[pistonburner]

34:00 What a liar. Russia/Soviets invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, parts of Finland (only because they couldn't invade more), parts of Japan, Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, was party to the invasion of South Korea and Vietnam, and helped subjugate Cubans and other South American nations under Communist dictatorships. Ok, a few of those were "part of Soviet Union" but the all the rest of that long list were not voluntarily under Soviet dictatorial totalitarianism.

Meanwhile Soviet Union was saved from being wiped out during WW2 thanks to the US and other Allies (which became NATO) through their absolutely immense amounts of supplies, weapons, aircraft, tanks, pretty much most of what they needed for their fight for survival. Not a single bit of USSR/russia was invaded by the US or NATO, nor did they have any intention to.

Before the cold war ended we saw how massively belligerent and evil Soviet aggression was with all their invasions, cruel rule of their own people and those they had invaded, massive espionage and murders in the West, etc. Anywhere they saw weakness they struck, harassed, expanded.
And after the cold war we saw how true the non-aggression of the West was as we saw a totally helpless Soviet Union *_not_* invaded or subjugated by the West but instead massive cost and effort was made to *_aid_* them in rebuilding their nation after the collapse, with *_no_* taking over of territory or anything else.

[tkskagen]

Great Video that was very informative!
Thank you

[cynthiaalver]

What happened to the submarine corridor as stated in the thumbnail?

[williamrobinson]

Good this. It doesn't shy away from the issues. Nice one Team! ⭐👍

[RykerHarris-kq]

Wow, it's really good. It's very attractive and the AD is very interesting

[billotto]

Sailors belong on ships & ships belong at sea. Navy gray & underway ! God bless the US Navy ! 🫡 🇺🇸

[Optable]

To the ignorant fellow vet, asking for record of toxic waste -> Here you are!
•Osaka Japan
•Nago, Okinawa
•Sea of Japan
•Philippines (2-Manila/ 1-Davao)
•Nago, Okinawa
•Attu (Near Islands)
•Puerto Rico (2x)
•Panama (2x)
•Mexico City (Coastline)
•Timor Leste
•Australia (11x)
•New Caledonia
•Mediterranean Sea
•Celtic Sea (Several)
•English Channel
•Gothenburg
•Norway

[larryjanson]

19 minets in and nothing about submarines. just about a air base and local corruption.

[jamiedriscoll]

26:06 first mention of a submarine and for 2 seconds. Take timeline headlines with a grain of salt

[NoManClatuer-pdck]

I agree with Professor Wuss the party comrade Dipshitsky. The Russians begged N. Korea, N. Vietnam, Etc. not to go to war. They've had to defend themselves against Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, even Afghanistan.

[cervantes]

Thanks for the memories. I was an aviation electronic technician 2nd class aircrewman[radar and radios] on a P2V5F patrol bomber deployed at Keflavik 12/58-3/1/59. We were told the if you got an Iceland girl pregnant you either had to give her $40/month for 20 yers or live with her on one of their islands for 20 years--also they told us the story that a crewman was on the plane at the end of the runway preparing to fly back to the States off deployment when the Icelandic police via radio ordered the plane to shut down while they came out to the plane and took the poor sailor off the plane. LFN, AT2

[thomasmaughan]

2:10 I love how the narrator pronounces North Koreor. Never pronounce the "R" except where there isn't one anyway.

[hololightful]

I thought this was well done until the end when it abruptly ended, almost in the middle of a statement... There is no proper ending at all. Is 5his supposed to be part 1 of a series? If so, that should be in the title or something...

[dougmoore]

Title is total click bait unrelated to content. 😮

[krm]

Thumbs down for the misleading title. 30 minutes in and nothing about submarines.

[svennielsen]

"Recently independent"? Iceland got its independence in 1918 but broke the alliance with Denmark only in 1944.