Welcome to Cold War Conversations, the home of real stories of the Cold War.

Hey there, Ryan Reynolds here. It's a new year, and you know what that means. No, not the diet. Resolutions.

A way for us all to try and do a little bit better than we did last year. And my resolution, unlike big wireless, is to not be a raging and raise the price of wireless on you every chance I get.

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And we filmed a Mayday demonstration. on Unlimited. See Mintmobile.com for details.

And we filmed a Mayday demonstration, which was organized by a small group of leftists.

It was just attacked by the police from incredible brutality, and they just smashed people's cameras.

I managed to get off with the film still in the camera and I was amazed but I wasn't shot.

This is Cold War Conversations.

If you're new here, you've come to the right place to listen to first-hand Cold War history accounts.

Do make sure you follow us in your podcast app or join our emailing list at cold warconversations.com. In this episode we welcome back John Green who told us about

his covert reporting for East Germany. The story continues with trips to Portugal to cover the Carnation Revolution and military coup,

a dangerous assignment to Chile under General Pinochet,

as well as visits to Nicaragua, the United States and Poland.

Don't miss the story of Jack Ryan.

It's nothing to do with the Tom Clancy character,

but it's a really interesting tale. Before we start, I'd like to thank our latest Patreon,

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