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The Regimes Museum (108)
Season 4 Episode 108
Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect, preserve, and…
6 years, 1 month ago
Assigned to a Cold War Government Nuclear Bunker (107)
Season 4 Episode 107
Regional seats of government or RSGs were a UK solution to disperse the machinery of government into the provinces, where there would be a greater ch…
6 years, 1 month ago
The First Western Pilot to Fly the Cold War Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106)
Season 4 Episode 106
What was it like to be the first western pilot to fly the most advanced Soviet fighter aircraft? At the 1989 Abbotsford Air Show, during the dying da…
6 years, 1 month ago
Children of the Cold War Bulgarian Silent Revolution (105)
Season 4 Episode 105
What are your dreams at 18 and what happens in the next 20 years? Children of the Silent Revolution is a documentary film following a tight-knit grou…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Cold War Berlin spy tunnel - Operation Gold
Season 4 Episode 103
Operation Gold (also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British) was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a…
6 years, 2 months ago
A British Communist Working in Cold War East Germany (104)
Season 4 Episode 104
John Tarver was born into a middle-class family. He joined the British Communist Party on his 18th birthday in 1948 because he felt the Soviet Union …
6 years, 2 months ago
Working with high security clearance in the Cold War US Navy (102)
Season 4 Episode 102
Jay Lieberman talks about his early childhood memories of the Cold War as well as his long career in the US Navy.
He tells a fascinating story of how …
6 years, 2 months ago
Interview with Ian Sanders the host and producer of Cold War Conversations
Season 4 Episode 101
And now for something completely different... today I’m chatting with listener Peter Ryan who will be turning the tables and questioning me about my …
6 years, 2 months ago
Manuel - Experiences of the Reforger 82 NATO Exercise (100)
Season 4 Episode 100
Manuel Alzaga returns to the podcast after his debut in episode 57 with his experiences as US Army 18-year-old assistant artillery gunner in West Ger…
6 years, 2 months ago
A Cold War Mystery - Death in Ice Valley (99)
Season 4 Episode 99
There’s an area near Bergen, Norway known as Isdalen (“Ice Valley”), but also nicknamed "Death Valley", due to the area's history of suicides in the …
6 years, 2 months ago