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Air Taobh Sear na Roinn Eòrpa, tha dùthchannan an lùib Còrdadh Warsaw a’ tòiseachadh a’ dol an aghaidh na riaghaltasan aca a bha a’ faighinn taic bhon Aonadh Shobhietach, fhad ’s a bha Stàitean Aonaichte Ameireagaidh agus an t-Aonadh Sobhietach a’ cumail orra a’ cruinneachadh agus a’ leasachadh armachd niùclasach ùr nas cumhachdaiche.

Ach ’s ann ann an 1983 a tha an saoghal a’ tighinn nas fhaisge air cogadh niùclasach an uair a tha siostam mearachdach Shobhietach a’ toirt seachad rabhadh gu bheil ionnsaigh arm-tilgidh a’ tighinn bho na Stàitean Aonaichte. Tha eagal niùclasach aig àirde a-rithist ann an 1986 le daoine bho air feadh an t-saoghail a’ tighinn a dh’ ionnsaigh nan duilgheadasan rèidio-beò air adhbharachadh le sgrios Chernobyl, tubaist a bha a’ comharrachadh tuiteam an Aonaidh Shobhietaich.

Mar dhaoine òga air gach taobh de Bhalla Berlin, tha Carola NicCaluim agus Andreas Wolff a’ faicinn am balla a rinn sgaradh eadar an Ear agus an Iar, a bha a’ sealltainn mar a bha cùisean ag atharrachadh tarsainn na Roinn Eòrpa, a bheireadh deireadh air còmhstrithean a’ Chogaidh Fhuair ann an 1991. Ach, ged a thàinig an Cogadh Fuar gu crìoch, dh’ fhàg e milleadh maireannach ann am beatha dhaoine agus uallach am biodh sìth ann san àm ri teachd.

In eastern Europe, Warsaw Pact countries are beginning to rise up against their Soviet Union-backed governments, while the USA and Soviet Union continue to stockpile and develop ever more powerful new nuclear weapons.

In 1983, the world comes close to nuclear war when a faulty Soviet system sends an alert of an incoming USA missile attack. Nuclear fears are again heightened in 1986 as people across the world are faced with the radioactive implications of the Chernobyl disaster, an accident that would be the first sign of the forthcoming collapse of the Soviet Union.

As young people on either side of the Berlin Wall, Carola MacCallum and Andreas Wolff see first-hand the dismantling of the barrier that had separated East and West, emblematic of the wind of change blowing across Europe that would lead to the cessation of Cold War hostilities in 1991. However, while the Cold War might have ended, it left lasting damage in people’s lives and showed the fragility of future peace.

In Gaelic with English subtitles.