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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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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

NEW EPISODE #ColdWar #Kids: The Unique Life of #US #Military #BRATs

🎧🎧Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode424/

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks Brian!

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Werner Stiller’s spectacular #defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the #ColdWar’s most serious blows to the #Stasi.

Cold War Conversations: My father was Cold War Stasi spy Werner Stiller (134)

Werner Stiller’s spectacular defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the Cold War’s most serious blows to the Stasi.At the time he was working as a case officer for the Main Directorate ...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5h

From the archive - Chasing Bears – #RAF intercepts of #ColdWar #Soviet aircraft – Part 1 pod.fo/e/f81c

Cold War Conversations: Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44)

Nick Anderson is a former RAF Phantom jet fighter pilot. We discuss flying in the Cold War and in detail how the RAF would have responded to a nuclear attack. We also talk about how QRA (Quick Re...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks v much and thanks for the reshare too!

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks very much!

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 10h

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 1d

The story of George Blake - Soviet spy

Cold War Conversations: The Happy Traitor - The Life of Soviet Spy George Blake (164)

Acclaimed author and journalist Simon Kuper, has written The Happy Traitor, the story of British spy and Soviet Union double agent George Blake, the last major British traitor of the Cold War.In 19...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 2d

NEW #coldwar #childhood experiences in one playlist

Cold War Childhood Experiences

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 2d

Start your week with first hand accounts of the #coldwar told by those that were there!

Cold War Conversations Podcast

The award-winning & New York Times recommended podcast preserving the stories of the Cold War before they are lost…subscribe for free. Produced by Ian Sanders FRHistS

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 3d

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

I had an incredible chat with Dennis W. Greene this week about his upbringing in racially segregated Savannah, Georgia to becoming a Colonel in the USAF.

Watch out for the double episode coming soon!

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, and thanks for sharing that story Frank.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

It's dismal weather in the UK today, but you can brighten it up with first hand account of the #coldwar told by those that were there! podfollow.com/coldwarpod

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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...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d

NEW EPISODE #ColdWar #Kids: The Unique Life of #US #Military #BRATs

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations @caleydave.bsky.social !

You are a winner of our CW Britain book giveaway.

Please can you message me to confirm delivery details.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 14d

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5d

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 8d

#InternationalPodcastDay is today September 30 - an international celebration of the power of podcasts.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 9d

From the Archive - Sex, spies and scandal : the John Vassall affair

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Cold War Conversations: Sex, spies and scandal : the John Vassall affair (336)

Alex Grant’s new book Sex, Spies and Scandal The John Vassall Affair has everything: a honey trap, industrial-scale espionage, journalists jailed for not revealing their sources and the first mod...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 10d

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 11d

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - the #cambridgefive #coldwar #spies

Follow Cold War Conversations then like and reshare this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book.

Thanks to @CambridgeSpies and @penswordbooks

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 11d

From the archive - Commanding a Cold War US Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine pod.fo/e/235916

Cold War Conversations: Commanding a Cold War US Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine (343)

Bill Woodman is a former US Navy nuclear missile submarine commander, who shares his rich experiences from joining the US Naval Academy in 1964 to commanding two SSBN submarines, the USS James Monr...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 11d

NEW EPISODE - The #CambridgeFive #ColdWar #SpyRing: #Philby, #Burgess, #Maclean, #Blunt & #Cairncross

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 11d

#OTD in 1983, Lt-Col Stanislav Petrov disregarded protocol by not notifying his superiors after a Soviet nuclear early-warning system indicated that the U.S. had launched five missiles. The false alarm could have triggered a retaliatory strike and large-scale nuclear war.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 11d

From the archive - Doorsteps of Hell - a US Marine platoon commander in the #VietnamWar pod.fo/e/278d30