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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Discovering your husband is a KGB spy (289) 2023-05-05
From Soviet Latvia to the BBC Russian Service (288) 2023-04-28
Transferring from the East German Army (NVA) to the unified German Army (Bundeswehr) (287) 2023-04-21
Drafted into the East German Army (286) 2023-04-14
How Cold War Britain prepared for Nuclear War (285) 2023-04-07
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (284) 2023-03-31
A British kid transferred to a Soviet school (283) 2023-03-25
Cold War US Army tank driver at the Iron Curtain (282) 2023-03-18
Cold War Dutch conscientious objector (281) 2023-03-11
Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file (280) 2023-03-04
A Cold War escape from Czechoslovakia (279) 2023-02-25
Growing up in the Stasi town (278) 2023-02-18
The most damaging female spy in US history (277) 2023-02-11
The 1989 US Invasion of Panama & the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre (276) 2023-02-08
Missile away, missile away! - A Cold War US Peacekeeper nuclear missile launch officer (275) 2023-02-04
Red Elvis on tour, aka Dean Reed the US Cold War music star (274) 2023-01-28
The Bridge of Spies spy (273) 2023-01-21
Two weddings and a teaching post in Cold War Berlin (272) 2023-01-14
The girl in a Cold War East German coal mine (271) 2023-01-07
In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 2 (270) 2023-01-04
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