Cold War Conversations

By Ian SandersSociety & Culture Documentary History

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Cold War Conversations episodes

September 07, 2018 My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26)
This is part 2 of my conversation with Professor Sergei Khrushchev the son of Nikita Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union 1953 to 1964.
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In part 2 of this interview, we gain insight into Soviet thinking around the Cuban Missile Crisis, we hear about the Soviet view of the building of the Berlin Wall along with the 1961 Berlin Crisis and his father’s fall from power.

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33 min
September 02, 2018 My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25)
In part 1 of this interview we talk about Professor Khrushchev’s early years, his relationship with his father, his father’s rise to power, the 1956 Hungarian Uprising as well the first international visits accompanying his father to the UK, East Germany and the USA.

Part 2 is here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode26/

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40 min
August 25, 2018 Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)
West Germany had a number of Nuclear Warning Bunkers dotted around the country similar to the Royal Observer Corps in the UK.
Mirko Krumm describes the organisation West German Civil Defence and the preservation of his bunker near Bremen.

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39 min
August 18, 2018 Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident
Powers' U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, as he flew over Soviet airspace, and after parachuting out of the plane he was captured and convicted of espionage.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was freed on Feb. 10, 1962, in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
The incident and exchange was detailed on the Steven Spielberg film “Bridge of Spies”.

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56 min
August 11, 2018 The Trabant car - East German icon (22)
We’re talking about East German cars with Alex Goffe and Mark Mullarkey of the UK-based Wartburg Trabant IFA Club.
Now I don’t think Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson, etc. have anything to worry about, but I hope you enjoy our chat and ride through the Staffordshire countryside in Alex’s Trabi…

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41 min
August 06, 2018 BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21)
Welcome to Episode 21 of Cold War Conversations.

Now I am very excited by today’s guest and we have a packed episode for you. Nigel Dunkley MBE is a former Royal Scots Dragoon Guard who served in Berlin with a squadron of Chieftain tanks tasked with defending the British Sector including the Brandenburg Gate should the Cold War have turned hot.

Nigel also performed intelligence gathering duties in the former East Germany with BRIXMIS which was an intelligence organisation worked throughout the Cold War years from 1946 to 1990 gathering intelligence in the former Soviet Occupation Zone of East Germany on the threat posed to the West and NATO by the 20 Soviet and 6 East German Army Divisions and their Air Forces deployed there.

In the 1980s Nigel also interpreted for Hitler’s Deputy Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison, Berlin and provided some fascinating insight into the character of Hess.

Later in his military career he was awarded the MBE and Bronze Star Medal for his services with the US 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Desert Storm. Nigel was also Chief of Staff at the Royal Armoured Corp Centre at Bovington, ending his army career as Defence Attache at the British Embassy in Berlin.

I am delighted and honoured to welcome Nigel Dunkley.

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1 hr 30 min
July 29, 2018 Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20)
Today we're talking to Anke Holst was born in the GDR during the 1970s in Rostock.
Anke has returned to Rostock after many years abroad and now provides tours of GDR sites in Rostock.
Our conversation highlights how different life was in the provinces of the GDR as opposed to Berlin.
In a wide ranging, frank and honest discussion we talk about her family life with her mother who was a stalwart Party member, Anke's school class role as "Agitator", her training in Marxist-Leninism, and her weapons training in the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation in Rostock.

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1 hr 23 min
July 21, 2018 Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983 (19)
Today we're talking to Francesca Akhtar who holds a BA Hons in American Studies with 1st class honours from Canterbury Christ Christ Church University in Kent, and a Masters degree in US history & Politics from the Institute of the Americas, University College London.
Her main research interests are US Cold War foreign policy, intelligence history and defence. Francesca has written a dissertation entitled “The most dangerous Soviet-American confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis?” An analysis of the origins, nature and impact of the Able Archer 83 incident .
I am delighted to welcome Francesca Akhtar to Cold War Conversations.

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1 hr 15 min
July 14, 2018 RAF Greenham Common - A history of the iconic Cold War British nuclear base.(18)
The airfield is probably best known, certainly in the UK, for the controversial deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the 1980s and the resulting Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp outside its gates.
Today’s guest is is a graduate in international relations, the author of “In Defence of Freedom; a History of RAF Greenham Common” and is also a Director of Greenham Control Tower Ltd.
I am delighted to welcome Jonathan Sayers.

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1 hr 5 min
July 07, 2018 Eyewitness to the Prague Spring
In 1968 today’s guest was 15 year old at the same school in Prague as Czech communist leader Alexander Dubček’s son.
Jan Čulík provides a valuable eyewitness account of the heady days of the Prague Spring and the subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion. He provides some insightful views that I found challenged my understanding of the Prague Spring.
He details the situation in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, the Prague Spring, his experiences as the reformers were suppressed to the late 1970s and his arrest by the STB, the Czech secret police.
The interview starts as we talk about the level of censorship in Czechoslovakia before the Prague Spring.

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1 hr 9 min

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