The cold snap was so severe that it even reached as far as Germany, the brown coal froze in the GDR and almost the entire power supply collapsed as a result, north and east Germany (in the GDR and West-Germany) was in large regions completely cut off from the outside world. My home in the north-west was only really hit hard in the second cold spell in February 1979, the snowdrifts lasted until May according to my parents. My great uncle was a farmer, he had trouble milking the cows and had to pour all the milk away. Other farmers' cows froze to death in the barns. At least there was something positive for my parents, my brother was conceived during the first cold snap For us here, these are very unusual events because we are not used to it (temperatures to -30°C), for you it would be a normal winter period in Siberia, I didn't even know it was that bad in the Soviet Union, it must've been absolute horror Thank you for the exciting video, I learned so much new stuff!
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