{"id":100627,"date":"2023-11-05T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T07:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100627"},"modified":"2023-11-05T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T07:36:34","slug":"forgotten-norway-incident-that-almost-sparked-world-war-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/lifestyle\/forgotten-norway-incident-that-almost-sparked-world-war-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Norway incident that almost sparked World War Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

China warns it’s important to ‘oppose a cold war’<\/h3>\n

By the 1990s, many political thinkers were heralding the so-called end of history, a time in which wars would no longer be fought between traditional powers and liberal democracy would prevail.<\/p>\n

That is now seen as having missed the mark by a fair margin, and the world is no longer as quiet as it was some 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

There are tens of ongoing conflicts, perhaps the most important to Europe that which is happening on its doorstep between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Early on, some warned that the war could explode into World War 3, perhaps not entirely excessive given the decades-old unresolved tensions between the West and Russia.<\/p>\n

Before the 1990s, this bad blood manifested itself in the Cold War, a period of tense relations, political manoeuvring, nuclear threats and, in the summer of 1968, a brush with a third global conflict.<\/p>\n

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After World War 2, Soviet Russia worked to create a buffer zone around itself that would keep the enemy, the West, largely at bay.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t possible in the far north, however, where Soviet Russia directly bordered Finland and Norway, both traditional allies of Western Europe.<\/p>\n

The tension along that border zone was, as it is today, palpable. On Norway’s stretch, military intervention from the Soviets was a very real threat.<\/p>\n

On June 3, 168, NATO held joint military exercises with Norway in the Troms area of the country’s north.<\/p>\n

Some days later, on June 7, in what is believed to have been a reaction to those exercises, Soviet tanks rolled up to the border at a town called Boris Gleb and silently waited.<\/p>\n

It was an unprecedented and highly threatening military approach never before seen in the history of the Cold War in Europe, with Soviet tanks having stationed themselves just 12 kilometres east of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes.<\/p>\n

The situation took a drastic turn when those tanks opened fire with countless Norwegians having holed themselves up in preparation for the inevitable \u2014 only to realise that the tanks were firing blanks.<\/p>\n

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