Cold War Conversations Podcast
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Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...
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Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
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Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
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A Cold War nuclear bunker is buried deep inside a Colorado mountain. See inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. www.businessinsider.com/inside-cheye...
A Cold War nuclear bunker is buried deep inside a Colorado mountain. See inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex dates back to the height of the Cold War and was built to withstand Soviet nuclear attacks.
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NEW EPISODE - The #BerlinAirlift #Victories, Myths, and the #BerlinBlockade
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‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was first established during the Cold War to provide news to people living within the Soviet Union and behind the Iron Curtain.
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Radio Free Europe's Hungarian Service Shuts Down After Trump Funding Cuts
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was first established during the Cold War to provide news to people living within the Soviet Union and behind the Iron Curtain.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was first established during the Cold War to provide news to people living within the Soviet Union and behind the Iron Curtain.
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I used to show this video to my Cold War pop culture class: majestic
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I used to show this video to my Cold War pop culture class: majestic
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From the archive - Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file coldwarconversations.com/episode280/
Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file
Mark Baker was featured in episode 9 where he told us about working in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s as a journalist for a small publishing company called Business International (BI). He was t
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November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
From the archive - Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file coldwarconversations.com/episode280/
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1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
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1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
coldwarconversations.com/episode316/
1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
This week is the 40th anniversary of the Able Archer NATO Exercise where it is reckoned that the Soviet Union and NATO almost triggered a nuclear war.Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Spotif
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
From the archive:
1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
coldwarconversations.com/episode316/
1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
coldwarconversations.com/episode316/
I have just recorded a great chat with Ihor who served in the #Soviet Ministry of Interior forces during the #coldwar.
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From the Archive - The Cold War Origins of the War in Ukraine coldwarconversations.com/episode410/
The Cold War Origins of the War in Ukraine
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron! The legacy of the Cold War in Europe continues to impact present
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From the Archive - The Cold War Origins of the War in Ukraine coldwarconversations.com/episode410/
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This one was released in June 1984. The previous year was the most dangerous in the Cold War. Reagan’s sabre-rattling & a war game called Able Archer 83, by NATO, had convinced the USSR leadership that the US would nuclear strike preemptively*
Two Tribes (1984) Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes (1984) Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
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This one was released in June 1984. The previous year was the most dangerous in the Cold War. Reagan’s sabre-rattling & a war game called Able Archer 83, by NATO, had convinced the USSR leadership that the US would nuclear strike preemptively*
Two Tribes (1984) Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes (1984) Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.