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

In the early ’80s, two landmark TV films tackled nuclear war: The Day After (US) and Threads (UK). Both showed the effects of nuclear fallout on ordinary people. They were grim, unsettlingly accurate, and terrifying. Neither offered a happy ending.

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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

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

Fighter Design in a picture - wing shape / fuselage shape and engine configuration- bonus points for where it was - one of my favourite Cold War images @ColdWarPod -

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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.

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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