The Regimes Museum (108)

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Ian Sanders

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect, preserve, and archive material and artifacts from some of the most notorious regimes of the 20th century. It is both a museum and an educational institution that offers resources to scholars and students while applying lessons of the past to the present. Now I’m sure you are enjoying your weekly dose of Cold War history, and you’d like to continue to do so. So I’m asking if you wouldn’t mind supporting us by paying at least $3 USD a month – higher amounts are welcome too. It’s very straightforward and you can stop whenever you want. Plus monthly supporters get the sought after CWC coaster too! Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ You can also help the podcast by leaving written reviews in Apple podcasts as well as sharing us on social media. Back to today’s episode, Marc & I have a varied chat about the nature of regimes, East German recycling, Romanian tech, Stasi coercion techniques amongst many others. We welcome Marc Voss to our Cold War conversation… There’s further information on this episode in our show notes, which can also be found as a link in your podcast app. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode108 If you like what you are hearing, please leave reviews in Apple podcasts and share us on social media. If you can’t wait for next week’s episode do visit our Facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search Cold War Conversations in Facebook. Thank you very much for listening. 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.
0:05.9	Being arrested for who you are rather than what you do is one of the hallmarks of what, I would say,
0:12.4	separates the dictatorship from a free society, where you are innocent until proven guilty.
0:19.3	This is Cold War Conversations.
0:22.9	If you're new here, you've come to the right place to listen to first-hand Cold War
0:27.5	history accounts.
0:29.2	Do make sure you follow us in your podcast app or join our emailing list at coldwarconversations.com.
0:37.7	Our guest today is Mark Voss, the founder and executive director of the Regimes Museum,
0:45.5	which is a culmination of an effort to collect, preserve and archive material and artifacts
0:51.4	from some of the most notorious regimes of the 20th century.
0:55.9	It is both a museum and an educational institution that offers resources to scholars and students
1:02.1	while applying the lessons of the past to the present.
1:05.7	Now, I'm sure you are enjoying your weekly dose of Cold War history and you'd like to continue to do so.
1:14.1	I'm asking if you wouldn't mind supporting us by paying at least three US dollars a month.
1:21.3	It's very straightforward and you can stop whenever you want.
1:26.6	Plus monthly supporters get the marvellous Cold War Conversations coaster too.
1:33.1	Just go to cold warconversations.com slash donate.
1:37.7	You can also help the podcast by leaving written reviews in Apple Podcasts, as well as sharing us on social media.
1:47.0	So back to today's episode, Mark and I have a varied chat about the nature of regimes, East German recycling, Romanian technology, Stasi coercion techniques, amongst many others. We welcome Mark Voss to our Cold War
2:04.9	Conversation. I am actually originally from Germany. I still speak it, and it's one of the
2:13.0	subjects that I teach at the university. And so dictatorship has always kind of been something luring in the
2:20.8	background of my life for a long, long time. Originally, I got into history through maritime history.
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