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Welcome to episode six of Cold War Conversations where we talk about the relatively little-known

uprising of 1953 in East Germany. A lot of focus is on the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it can be

argued that the uprising of 1953 sowed the seeds for the eventual demise of the GDR. We chat with

Dr Richard Millington, who has studied the uprising and shares with us some fascinating research,

including eyewitness accounts and details from the Starzy Files of the period.

Hello, Richard.

Hi, Ian. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. Thank you very much for coming on the podcast.

Well, thanks for me. I'm looking forward to it.

Good.

Good.

Well, I hope you still think that at the end of it.

But anyway, let's start.

So can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Yeah, sure.

I'm program leader for German at the University of Chester.

So I work in the

Modern Languages Department there. My background is actually German language, but I would

actually say I'm a historian in a languages department. So what I do is I teach German language,

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