A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123)
Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses with salted fish and very poor quality beer. He returned in 197...
22 Maj 20201h 4min
A 23 year old Cold War nuclear missile commander (122)
Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was made platoon commander and responsible for 3 of these deadly we...
15 Maj 202050min
The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121)
Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline and fall during the move to reunification with West Germany. M...
8 Maj 202051min
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of 100 highly trained soldiers who, should hostilities break out,...
1 Maj 20201h 18min
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian Federation as we know it today. In Moscow, Alan had the opp...
24 Apr 20201h 15min
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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 20201h 10min
