Cold War Conversations Podcast

The New York Times says... "Listening to even one episode of 'Cold War Conversations' will make this sprawling, potentially intimidating period of history feel vivid and compelling." coldwarconversations.com #coldwar #oralhistory #history

One of my next reads. 

What matches would you choose? 

Episode coming in June.

During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence developed operatives known as “swallows” and “ravens.” Their role was to form personal relationships with selected targets. The longer the relationship lasted, the more valuable it became. Stability increased effectiveness.

There’s hull down and then there’s S-tank hull down!

M551 Sheridan of the 11th Cav. in South Vietnam.

May Day Parade in Görlitz, 1989.

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode448/ #Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

March 21st 1982: Priority Signal from Major Gary Noott, Officer Commanding NP8901 RM in Stanley, to CGRM, regarding the incident on South Georgia. I have a lot of the comms over this time regarding the #Falklands and South Georgia, which I will be posting as they happened.

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode448/ #Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode448/ #Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen here 🎧🎧coldwarconversations.com/episode448/ #Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

Crank up the volume to get the full effect!

Photo of 29+02, former 607 in Preschen, Aug 18 1994. Photo by @RobSchleiffert

Stridsvagn 103 🇸🇪

The Royal Navy does not have enough ships, submarines and aircraft to do its job. There is a shortfall of skilled people. Operational deployments risk breaking the fleet. This is the blunt assessment of CINCFLEET to the 1st Sea Lord of the state of the Royal Navy in 1991...

Pilots from the Red Banner Turkestan District, 1984. Photo: R. Shagayev

A family at home on Hufelandstrasse, East Berlin, 1980s.

The United States fire a 15-kiloton Nuclear artillery shell, 1953

Postcard of Magnitogorsk, USSR, 1972.

20 March 1991. Cuban Air Force pilot Major Orestes Lorenzo Perez defected in his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23BN to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida on a training mission. U.S. fighters scrambled to intercept but failed after hardware and software problems with the radar.

This legendary sequence from the 1978 BBC series Connections is often remembered as the "greatest shot in television history," it actually shows the launch of the Voyager 2 space probe atop a Titan IIIE rocket.