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 for Re...
7 Aug 20201h 4min
Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War (133)
Tim Phillips travelled the route of the former Iron Curtain from deep inside the arctic circle to the meeting point in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey. On his journey, he explored both the surviving tr...
31 Juli 20201h 13min
Cold War Czechoslovak hockey star defects to Canada (132)
Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known as the first ice hockey player to defect to North America to play. We...
24 Juli 20201h 13min
Robert - The anti Cold War activist (131)
Robert Perschmann describes himself as an anti-Cold War activist. His political views started to form while serving in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War period where he saw first hand the toll o...
17 Juli 20201h 11min
Susan - An American teaching English in East Germany (130)
Susan Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University. In the late 1980’s she taught in Rostock in the former GDR and then lived in West Berlin but frequently crossed back into the East to ...
11 Juli 20201h 25min
The KGB tried to recruit me (129)
Hans de Vreij is a Dutch journalist who has worked in Berlin , Brussels, Geneva and Prague. Whilst working at the United Nations in Geneva Hans was the subject of attempted recruitment by the KGB to d...
3 Juli 20201h
Experiencing the Cold War via virtual reality (128)
How can we go beyond the films, books, and photos to learn more about the Cold War? Films are certainly evocative and certainly inform but how can we go beyond that and immerse ourselves to see what i...
26 Juni 202047min
Cold War US Army Intelligence Analyst (127)
Bill was a US Army Intelligence Analyst. In 1986 he was assigned to Order of Battle Branch, Soviet Section where for three years he studied the Warsaw Pact armies working closely with the US Military ...
19 Juni 20201h 11min
