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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 14h

Bing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode476/ #china #culturalrevolution

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 16h

#OTD 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 - the first artificial satellite. Its radio signal is heard worldwide as it circles Earth every 98 minutes. The little metal sphere shocks America, demonstrates Soviet rocket power and ignites the Space Race.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At 12, Bing became one of #Mao’s Red Guards. Then the #CulturalRevolution turned on his family—and sent him towards the #Soviet frontier. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode476 #china #culturalrevolution

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OTD 1952: Britain detonates its first atomic bomb. Operation Hurricane explodes inside HMS Plym off Western Australia with a yield of 25 kilotons, destroying the ship. Britain is now the world’s third nuclear power—and its independent nuclear deterrent has begun.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - From #Communist Paradise to Freedom. A story of #coldwar #poland Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social , like & reply to this post for a chance to win a copy of this ebook. UK addresses only T&C's here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. I had no idea visits were permitted.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OTD 1949: Mao proclaims the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. Communist victory ends the civil war on the mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists retreat to Taiwan. Within a year, Chinese forces will enter Korea. The Cold War has shifted decisively into Asia.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode475/

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Received from a friend. Listening to CWC is the best medicine!

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD 1949: The #BerlinAirlift ends. For 15 months, Allied aircraft supplied blockaded West Berlin, delivering over 2.3 million tonnes of food, fuel and essentials. Stalin’s blockade failed—without the crisis becoming a shooting war. An early Cold War victory in the skies.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OTD Sep 1957: A waste tank explodes at the secret Soviet Mayak plutonium complex. Radioactive material forms a 300km trail across the Urals; thousands are evacuated. Moscow hides the disaster for decades. environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/nuclea…

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was great to meet up with some Cold War Conversations listeners at the RAF Museum Midlands yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the tour and the chats. Further meetups are in the pipeline. Join our free membership to stay up to date here www.patreon.com/cw/coldwarpod

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD 1991: George H. W. Bush announces sweeping unilateral nuclear cuts US battlefield weapons will be destroyed, tactical arms removed from ships & strategic bombers taken off alert. 8 days later, Gorbachev responds with Soviet reductions The arms race shifts into reverse

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#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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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#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. More here. coldwarconversations.com/episode314/

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When Bogdan’s uncle knocked on the family door in #Poland in 1975, nobody recognised him. Decades of war, migration and censorship had separated them. This is one family’s remarkable #ColdWar story. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode474/

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jack from coldwarconversations.com/episode320/ met GDR Leader Egon Krenz when he was a young lad. Last week they had a chance reunion!

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#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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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD in 1981: #Belize becomes #independent from Britain. But neighbouring #Guatemala claims the territory & refuses to recognise the new state. British troops have to remain behind to deter an invasion Four days later, Belize joins the UN by 144 votes to 1. Guess who votes against?

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Np. I'd like to do more. Send any likely guests my way!

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The #Communist Party controlled #Poland, but few people Bogdan knew truly believed its promises. Behind the propaganda lay shortages, barter, quiet mockery—and a growing conviction that the system would fall. Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode474/

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Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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missinglinkage.bsky.social @missinglinkage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

David Frazer is an Australian artist. "The Tangled Wood," 2018 wood engraving

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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. Listen here 🎧🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode474/

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast

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Paul Hébert @paulinraincity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a must-see documentary for jazz fans and students of anticolonial and Cold War politics

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History Education Network @historyedunet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HMS Swiftsure, once a Cold War nuclear submarine, is being dismantled at Rosyth—a powerful reminder that even the mightiest vessels eventually return to the scrapyard.

Decommissioned British submarine Swiftsure being dismantled in dock in Rosyth (4/6/25)

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17 September 1939. Soviet Union invaded Poland as part of a secret agreement contained in the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The Soviet military operations lasted for the following 20 days, ending on 6 October 1939 with the 2-way German-Soviet division and annexation of Poland.

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