Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The year 1963 was at the height of the Cold War. The US and the Soviet Union were in a space race and a nuclear arms race. Most of Eastern Europe was behind the Iron Curtain. Then on July 26, an earthquake hit. The city of Skopje, Macedonia, then a part of Yugoslavia, was a shambles, with a thousand people dead, many times that injured, and 75% of its buildings ruined.
By the time the earthquake — whose tremors were felt as far away as…
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