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Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 1 (198)
Season 9 Episode 198
Joanna Stingray was only 23 years old when she first set foot in the USSR and started meeting now-legendary musicians and artists of the Soviet under…
4 years, 6 months ago
Popular Cold War culture of the 1980s (197)
Season 9 Episode 197
Over the past, nearly two decades, the Stuck in the 80s podcast has emerged as the go-to for all aspects of 1980s nostalgia from a North American poi…
4 years, 6 months ago
Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions & US Counterintelligence
Season 9 Episode 196
I speak with Aden Magee who operated as the commander of a highly specialized Counterintelligence (CI) unit in West Germany during the last decade of…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ron - a veteran of the Korean War & the Malayan Emergency (195)
Season 9 Episode 195
Ron Knight served in the Royal Marines on HMS Belfast during the Korean War of 1950-53. He was a gunner and describes the shore bombardments and how …
4 years, 6 months ago
The Gouzenko Affair - the start of the Cold War (194)
Season 9 Episode 194
Igor Gouzenko exposed Soviet intelligence's efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affai…
4 years, 6 months ago
Flying the F-111 nuclear bomber (193)
Season 9 Episode 193
Rick Shreve was a USAF F111 pilot based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. We hear about his early USAF career as a fighter pilot, then we move onto his tr…
4 years, 7 months ago
The forgotten cosmonaut (192)
Season 9 Episode 192
This week it's the 60th anniversary of the flight of Gherman Titov on Vostok 2. The forgotten 2nd cosmonaut overshadowed by the exploits of his frien…
4 years, 7 months ago
A workers view of Poland from Łódź in 1986 (191)
Season 9 Episode 191
Evan McGilvray has written a number of books on Poland as well as biographies. He is well versed in Poland and Polish society and away from the usual…
4 years, 7 months ago
Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin (190)
Season 9 Episode 190
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North Vietnam. With…
4 years, 7 months ago
Philippe - A French soldier in Cold War Berlin (189)
Season 8 Episode 189
The French Forces in Berlin were the units of the French Armed Forces stationed from 1945 until the end of the Cold War-era in West Berlin according …
4 years, 7 months ago