1960s School Road Trip across the Soviet Union

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USSR School trip album

Welcome to Episode 10 of Cold War Conversations.

Today we’re moving away from the GDR and Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union.

Jeremy Poynton was a 16 year old school boy in 1968 when he embarked on a memorable trip by road from Leningrad to Odessa.

He vividly describes a Soviet Union still struggling with poverty and a diverse range of peoples from city dwellers to remote Chechen villagers.

It’s a unique story as Jeremy details his experiences and the sights of a 1960s Soviet Union just as the Prague Spring was being suppressed

I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did, we welcome Jeremy Poynton.

Trip Photos

Films

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Manchurian Candidate

Bridge of Spies

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BBC version

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb – Trailer

Battleship Potemkin – The Odessa steps sequence

Music

Beatles

Rolling Stones

Jefferson Airplane

Grateful Dead

If you could invite three personalities from the cold war period to have a few pints with, who would they be?

Alexander Kerensky  – Leader of the Provisional Government after the Russian Revolution

Mikhail Gorbachev – Last leader of the Soviet Union

Ronald Reagan – President of the United States