The award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of @RoyalHistSoc & at @mcrmuseum
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#OTD 1983: Soviet computers report five US nuclear missiles inbound.
Lt Col Stanislav Petrov judges the warning false—and is right. Satellites have mistaken sunlight on clouds for launches.
At a perilous Cold War moment, human judgement may have prevented catastrophe.
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The #Gdańsk shipyard should have thundered with 10,000 workers. Instead, Bogdan heard “deafening quiet”—then saw columns of strikers marching as the movement that became #Solidarity began.
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The #Gdańsk shipyard should have thundered with 10,000 workers. Instead, Bogdan heard “deafening quiet”—then saw columns of strikers marching as the movement that became #Solidarity began.
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"Fire in His Hands", a Soviet mosaic on the facade of the Ortachala Fire Station in Tbilisi, Georgia, completed in 1979.
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Lt Col. Stephen Harrison, MBE served for two years as a full-time Touring Officer with BRIXMIS. During the #ColdWar these hazardous three-man, vehicle-borne patrols collected intelligence on the Warsaw Pact forces in East Germany. Listen here pod.fo/e/13af96
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Schild an der innerdeutschen Grenze nahe Ratzeburg: „Die Verwirklichung der Menschenrechte darf kein Lippenbekenntnis sein. Die Beseitigung dieser Schreckensgrenze muss Ziel aller Deutschen sein!“
📸: 1979.
© Raimond Spekking
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Sheep grazing in front of the ruins of the Frauenkirche in Dresden, 1957.
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Soviet tanks line the streets of Prague during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.
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Lt. Raymond William (Bill) West brings his AD-4 (A-1D) Skyraider into Kimpo AB, Korea on Sept. 21, 1950 after taking a little battle damage.🫡
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John Sadovy - Hungarian Revolution, 1956
Col Pal Maleter, defected to the rebels when he was told to take five tanks to fight them, making him a national hero.
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#OTD in 1949: Pres. Truman tells the world that the Soviet Union has exploded an atomic bomb.
America’s nuclear monopoly is over.
The Soviets have acquired the weapon far sooner than many in Washington expected due to Soviet espionage.
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#coldwar mystery of concrete ring 'solved after 30 years'
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Born in 1961 as the Berlin Wall went up, Bogdan spent his childhood searching for a way beyond the #IronCurtain. His memories reveal the private realities behind #communist #Poland’s public facade.
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Jack from coldwarconversations.com/epi… met GDR Leader Egon Krenz when he was a young lad. Last week they had a chance reunion!
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Computing room at the Pedagogical Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Leninabad, Tajik SSR, 1980s.
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#BOOKGIVEAWAY - From #Communist Paradise to Freedom. A story of #coldwar #poland
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#otd in 1979: A US surveillance satellite detects a mysterious double flash over the southern oceans.
The signature looks like a nuclear explosion.
Was it South Africa? Israel? A secret joint test?
The CIA later assessed the probability of a nuclear test at 90%+.
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