Soviet Union
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- Posted30 August 2022
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- Posted30 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
Witness History. Ukraine's Revolution on Granite. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1990, a hunger strike led by Ukrainian students brought down the Soviet regime in Kyiv
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The Soviet James Bond. Audio, 9 minutes
The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
5 Minutes On. Babushka Z - the Kremlin's unlikely propaganda icon. Audio, 7 minutes
"I don't think they should glorify me". Meet the Ukrainian who's gone viral in Russia.
- AttributionBBC News
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The museum of banned Russian art. Audio, 9 minutes
How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Attribution
- Posted11 May 2022
Witness History. Soviet nuclear missile alert. Audio, 9 minutes
The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. Britain's Soviet spy scandal. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Explanation. Understanding the long history between Russia and Ukraine. Audio, 18 minutes
What has bound Russia and Ukraine together, and what has pulled them apart?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Soviet holidays in Crimea. Audio, 9 minutes
Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. The Budapest Memorandum. Audio, 9 minutes
The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Putin. 1. The Moth. Audio, 28 minutes
From street thug to spy – what the Russian president did before he came to power.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Witness History. The demise of the Soviet Union. Audio, 9 minutes
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy. Audio, 9 minutes
The secret plan to clear a huge nuclear testing site after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Audio, 9 minutes
In January 1945, nearly 10,000 people died in the worst maritime disaster in history.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. The end of Stalinist rule in Albania. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 December 2021
Witness History. Rudolf Nureyev defects. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1961 the great ballet dancer stunned the world by defecting from the Soviet Union.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted12 December 2021
Witness History. Russia’s Democracy pioneer. Audio, 9 minutes
Galina Starovoitova, the murdered politician who championed democracy in '90s Russia
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Spying in Berlin. Audio, 9 minutes
At the height of the Cold War Berlin was known as the spy capital of the world.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
