Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out. We cover subjects such as spies, spying, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons, warfare, tanks, jet aircraft, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, aviation, culture, and politics. We also cover personalities such as Fidel Castro, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko, Margaret Thatcher, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Lech Walesa, General Jaruzelski, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Other subjects include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, West Berlin, East Berlin, Cuban missile Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Bay of Pigs, SALT, Perestroika, Space Race, superpower, USSR, Soviet Union, DDR, GDR, East Germany, SDI, Vietnam War, Korean War, Solidarność, Fall of the Wall, Berliner Mauer, Trabant, Communist, Capitalist, Able Archer, KGB, Stasi, STB, SB, Securitate, CIA, NSA, MI5, MI6, Berlin Wall, escape, defection, Cuba, Albania, football, sport, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Poland, China, Taiwan, Austria, West Germany, Solidarity, espionage, HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, RAF, USAF, British Army, US Army, Red Army, Soviet Army, Afghanistan, NVA, East German Army, KAL007, T-72, T-64, Chieftain, M60 The podcast is for military veterans, school teachers, university lecturers, students and those interested in Cold War history, museums, bunkers, weapons, AFVs, wargamers, planes, A Level, GCSE students studying Superpower Relations and the Cold War.

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The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121) 2020-05-08
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120) 2020-05-01
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119) 2020-04-24
Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118) 2020-04-17
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117) 2020-04-10
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116) 2020-04-03
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115) 2020-03-28
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114) 2020-03-21
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113) 2020-03-14
Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112) 2020-03-07
Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111) 2020-02-29
Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110) 2020-02-26
Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109) 2020-02-22
The Regimes Museum (108) 2020-02-15
Assigned to a Cold War Government Nuclear Bunker (107) 2020-02-08
The First Western Pilot to Fly the Cold War Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106) 2020-02-01
Children of the Cold War Bulgarian Silent Revolution (105) 2020-01-25
The Cold War Berlin spy tunnel - Operation Gold (103) 2020-01-11
A British Communist Working in Cold War East Germany (104) 2020-01-11
Working with high security clearance in the Cold War US Navy (102) 2020-01-04
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