Cold War Conversations
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Borderlands and Battles: A Finnish Town's Cold War Story (333)
Timo's childhood was overshadowed by his grandparents memories of their home lost during World War II and their proximity to the Soviet Union.
Australian Cold War Maritime Air Patrols (332)
Leigh flew on the P-3C Orion with the RAAF across the Indo-Pacific region during the Cold War
A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)
In this deeply personal episode, our guest, Norbert, vividly recounts his traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States.
Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)
Dan served in the War Plans office of the Cold War US Army VII Corps
The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic.
US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)
Dan served as a lieutenant and captain in a US Army air defence artillery battalion in West Germany from 1980 until 1985.
Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)
The Cold War secrets of the Jodrell Bank observatory
The East German Tank Commander (326)
In the mid-1980s Dag was a T72 tank commander in the NVA , the East German Army.
Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)
Kate is sent to Moscow in 1985 to write articles for The Morning Star, a left-wing British daily newspaper
Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (324)
We cover Kangaroo 89, a huge military exercise with the entire Australian Army using an area the size of Western Europe