A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)
In this deeply personal episode, our guest, Norbert, vividly recounts his traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States. With vivid recollections, he describes the struggles of...
10 Feb 20241h 24min
Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)
Dan served in the War Plans office of the US Army VII Corps working on counterattack plans and reorganization of the US Army’s General Defence Plan. He describes the debriefing of a Polish Special For...
3 Feb 20241h 16min
The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On...
27 Jan 20241h 17min
US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)
Dan served as a lieutenant and captain in a US Army air defence artillery battalion in West Germany from 1980 until 1985. He describes details of Soviet overflights deep into West Germany and we dis...
20 Jan 20241h 18min
Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)
The Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire in the UK played a significant secret role during the Cold War. It was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investig...
13 Jan 20241h 35min
The East German Tank Commander (326)
In the mid-1980s Dag was a T72 tank commander in the NVA, the East German Army and is now a volunteer at the Tank Museum at Bovington in the UK. He describes his initial tank commander training, the...
6 Jan 20241h 38min
Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)
Kate is sent to Moscow in 1985 to write articles for The Morning Star, a left-wing British daily newspaper founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker by the Communist Party of Great Britain. She lives in a b...
30 Des 20231h 22min
Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (324)
Tim participates in Kangaroo 89, a huge military exercise with the entire Australian Army using an area the size of Western Europe and we hear about the Australian equivalent of Wolfgang the Bratty Ma...
23 Des 20231h
