Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118)
Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade Union leader Lech Wałęsa including his last interview before ...
17 Huhti 20201h
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117)
The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had the capacity to annihilate the other, was tense. By...
10 Huhti 20201h 9min
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116)
Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the North Atlantic where the Danish Navy acted as a coast guard wh...
3 Huhti 20201h 10min
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to Tirana for a World Cup qualifying game. Looking for somewhere...
28 Maalis 202044min
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)
Anthony enlisted in the British Army in 1987 and after 9 months he was posted to West Berlin. He tells the story of life as a Private in Berlin from the drinking (and the fighting) to the urban warfar...
21 Maalis 20201h 7min
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)
Charlie Flowers was 18 in 1988. He travelled by train across a divided Eastern Europe that was starting to show signs of the changes that manifested themselves in 1989. He shares stories of the intere...
14 Maalis 202042min
Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112)
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and armed forces prepared those in power a variety of booklets, post...
7 Maalis 202059min
Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111)
Harry served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. His role was that of an Intelligence and Security Operator, focused on the identification of foreign and other ma...
29 Helmi 202044min
