they stopped the cruise missiles

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star In Amsterdam half a million people opposed cruise missiles in europe november 1981

In the seventies and eighties, photojournalist Piet den Blanken (1951), documentated the opposition against nuclear weapons. Here are shown some pictures of the largest rally ever in the Netherlands.

Abroad they called this widespread resentment against the international arms-race the "Dutch Disease" , a term most Dutchmen were rather proud of.

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© 1997 Piet den Blanken