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How the 1980s Gave Us the Revenge of History — Episode 8 of the Dangerous Memory Podcast

Charlie Angus - The Resistance - August 24, 2025 - LISTEN - 26 minutes

QUOTE: “The problem with peace is that you can’t make no money with it.” — Gil Scott-Heron

EXCERPT: "Welcome to Dangerous Memory — the podcast where we reconsider everything we thought we knew about the 1980s.

I’m your host Charlie Angus author of the book Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, published by the House of Anansi Press and soon on audio books with Tantor Media. Each episode, we’ll crack open a chapter of the 1980s and ask: what really happened and why does it still matter today?

In this final chapter, we revisit the “collapse” of the Berlin Wall and the promise of a “peace dividend” that could have transformed the world.

This is the dangerous memory of how the 1980s ended and how the ghosts of that decade continue to haunt and shape the present. One last time, we’re going back to the 80s — let’s get started.

This may be the end of our summer podcast series but the conversation isn’t over. From all of us here at The Resistance, thank you for listening. . . . . "

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