Growing up on a Soviet base in East Germany (86)

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Ian Sanders

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Andrej's father served with the Soviet Army in Germany. He grew up on a military base and shares his childhood memories as East Germany began to disintegrate. So would you like one of those Cold War Conversations coasters you keep hearing me talk about? Well it's easy, just sign up to https://www.patreon.com/coldwarpod and for the price of a couple of coffees a month you'll be helping to cover the costs of the show and keep us on the air plus you get that sought after coaster of to you just go to Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ So back to you today's episode. Andrej's father was a lieutenant in Signals and Andrej provides a fascinating child's eye view of life on the base and in his East German kindergarten as well as insight into the changing mood of some of the East German population to the Soviets as the GDR began to disintegrate. Next week they'll be a second episode with Andrej where we hear his experiences as a child refugee in West Germany after the Wall fell. Do make you are subscribed via your favorite podcast app so you don't miss that. I'm delighted to welcome Andrej to our Cold War Conversation... I do hope you found Andrej’s story interesting. We have further photos, videos and information in our show notes which are at https://coldwarconversations.com/episode86/ or will show as a link in some podcast apps. Radio GDR If you are interested in East Germany we can highly recommend our friends over at Radio GDR. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Cold War Conversations, the home of real stories of the Cold War.
0:05.8	I was also shooting AKs, for example. So my dad actually let me pull the trigger on the training
0:13.2	field, you know, so not full automatic. We were shooting semis. But still, that was also an
0:19.8	experience to me, you know.
0:23.0	This is Cold War Conversations.
0:26.3	If you're new here, you've come to the right place to listen to first-hand Cold War history accounts.
0:32.8	Do make sure you follow us in your podcast app or join our emailing list at cold warconversations.com.
0:42.0	Andre's father served with the Soviet army in East Germany. He grew up on a Soviet military base and
0:50.0	shares his childhood memories as East Germany began to disintegrate.
0:59.5	So, would you like one of those Cold War Conversations coasters you keep hearing me talk about?
1:02.3	It's easy. Just sign up to Patreon.
1:09.3	And for the price of a couple of coffees a month, you'll be helping to cover the show's costs and keep us on the air.
1:11.4	Plus you get that coaster too.
1:15.8	Just go to Cold Warconversations.com slash donate.
1:19.1	So back to today's episode,
1:26.9	Andre's father was a lieutenant in signals stationed at Rudersdorf and Prenzlau-Sov-Soviet bases.
1:31.6	He provides a fascinating child's-eye view of life on the base and in his East German kindergarten,
1:34.3	as well as insight into the changing mood of some of the East German population to the Soviets
1:39.2	as East Germany began to disintegrate.
1:42.7	Next week there'll be a second episode with Andre
1:45.5	where we hear his experiences
1:47.7	as a child refugee in West Germany after the war fell.
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