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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Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29) 2018-09-29
Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more 2018-09-21
Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27) 2018-09-15
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26) 2018-09-07
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25) 2018-09-02
Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24) 2018-08-25
Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident 2018-08-18
The Trabant car - East German icon (22) 2018-08-11
BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21) 2018-08-06
Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20) 2018-07-29
Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983 (19) 2018-07-21
RAF Greenham Common - A history of the iconic Cold War British nuclear base.(18) 2018-07-14
Eyewitness to the Prague Spring 2018-07-07
Mark - A US Combat Engineer in Cold War West Germany (16) 2018-06-30
Sabine - An East German Childhood (15) 2018-06-23
The 1968 Prague Spring (14) 2018-06-16
A US soldier at Checkpoint Charlie when the Berlin Wall opened (13) 2018-06-09
My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book (12) 2018-06-02
Observing Cold War Armageddon (11) 2018-05-26
1960s Road Trip Across the Soviet Union (10) 2018-05-18
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