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Cold War Conversations Podcast
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Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...

Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/

Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
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NEW EPISODE - Shaking Hands with #China’s Second Most Powerful Man

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November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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
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October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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From the archive:
1983 – the year the Cold War almost turned hot
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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
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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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November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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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November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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
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November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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.
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
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November 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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NEW EPISODE - Shaking Hands with #China’s Second Most Powerful Man

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode430/
#Mao #McCarthyism #redscare #Beijing #communism
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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NEW EPISODE - Shaking Hands with #China’s Second Most Powerful Man

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode430/
#Mao #McCarthyism #redscare #Beijing #communism
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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NEW EPISODE - Shaking Hands with #China’s Second Most Powerful Man

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode430/
#Mao #McCarthyism #redscare #Beijing #communism
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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NEW EPISODE - Shaking Hands with #China’s Second Most Powerful Man

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode430/
#Mao #McCarthyism #redscare #Beijing #communism
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November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Please join us in extending warm birthday wishes to #Apollo13 Lunar Module Pilot, Astronaut Fred Haise, born #OTD, November 14, 1933.

#happybirthday Fredo!

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“Houston, we’ve had a problem” interview with Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut
55 years ago last month Fred Haise was one of the three astronauts on the ill-fated Moon mission when a design fault caused an oxygen tank to explode mid-mission putting the Apollo 13 crew in
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November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM