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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A Cold War childhood in Albania (211) 2021-12-03
The Cold War handshake in the heavens - the Apollo-Soyuz mission (210) 2021-11-27
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev - aspiring actor and poetry fan (209) 2021-11-14
Born into a family of Canadian Communists (208) 2021-11-13
Berlin: Capital of Spies (207) 2021-11-06
How a Soviet conscript became a NATO General (206) 2021-10-29
Terrorism in the Cold War (205) 2021-10-22
Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204) 2021-10-15
Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203) 2021-10-08
MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202) 2021-10-01
Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201) 2021-09-24
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 3 (200) 2021-09-17
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199) 2021-09-14
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 1 (198) 2021-09-10
Popular Cold War culture of the 1980s (197) 2021-09-07
Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions & US Counterintelligence SOXMIS & USMLM (196) 2021-09-03
Ron - a veteran of the Korean War & the Malayan Emergency (195) 2021-08-27
The Gouzenko Affair - the start of the Cold War (194) 2021-08-20
Flying the F-111 nuclear bomber (193) 2021-08-13
The forgotten cosmonaut (192) 2021-08-10
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