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

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

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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.

🚨: After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.

Karl Stephan’s 1961 cover illustration for the German science fiction magazine Utopia Zukunftsroman.

Hall of Staatsratsgebäude. 1960s.

Once upon a time in Sofia

March 19th 1982: the Argentine Naval Transport ARA Bahia Buen Suceso is in Leith Harbour, South Georgia. Having agreed to remove the Argentine flag after Trefor Edwards, BAS handed over a demand from London to do so, they hit a new snagging point... 1/2

Designers of the Riga Autobus Factory. Photo by Vladimir Bogatyrev, Latvia, 1980.

"Together to Mars", Painting by Pamela Lee, 1986