How Cold War Britain prepared for Nuclear War (285)
During the Cold War, the awesome power of nuclear weapons and its deadly fallout meant that every town, village and home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation colour...
7 Huhti 20231h 17min
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (284)
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR prese...
31 Maalis 20231h 26min
A British kid transferred to a Soviet school (283)
Richard was 6 years old when he was uprooted from a school in the United States to a Soviet school 700 miles East of Moscow. In 1988 the Soviet Union was opening up following Michael Gorbachev’s poli...
25 Maalis 202351min
Cold War US Army tank driver at the Iron Curtain (282)
Brian Regal entered the US Army in 1977 and served on the M60A1 tank initially as a driver. The M60A1 was America's primary main battle tank during the Cold War, with initial deployment in 1960 and co...
18 Maalis 20231h 39min
Cold War Dutch conscientious objector (281)
In 1987 Martin received a letter informing him of his conscription into the Dutch Army. A number of European NATO countries had conscription during the Cold War. Holland’s applied to men over the age ...
11 Maalis 20231h 1min
Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file (280)
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 the company...
4 Maalis 202353min
A Cold War escape from Czechoslovakia (279)
We return to Dirk’s story from episode 278 with a move to East Berlin following his mother’s divorce from his father. Dirk finds school life more relaxed where pupils are allowed to wear Western clot...
25 Helmi 202349min
Growing up in the Stasi town (278)
Dirk lived in the town of Bernau about 15 miles from East Berlin. Just outside Bernau was Wandlitz the residential estate of the East German leadership. As a result, Bernau had one of the highest dens...
18 Helmi 202351min
