Big Blend Radio History Festival Day 2: Military Aircraft and Soviet History
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English - August 23, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture parks and travel music and the arts history and culture family and relationships food and drink business and leadership health and self help nature and environment home and garden. Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter publisher team of Big Blend Magazines and full-time travelers on the Love Your Parks Tour, for Day 2 of Big Blend Radio’s “History, Heritage & Culture” Festival, broadcasting live from Fenton, Michigan
On This Episode:
-Foxbat Tales - July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25—purportedly capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering any aircraft in NATO’s inventory. Military historian and award-winning author Mike Guardia discusses his new book “Foxbat Tales: The MiG-25 in Combat.”
- Behind the Red Veil - The 1985–1991 policies of perestroika and glasnost marked a new age of openness and transparency in the USSR, leading to an increased mutual curiosity between ordinary Americans and Russians. American educator Frank Thoms discusses his memoir “Behind the Red Veil: An American Inside Gorbachev’s Russia” that details what he learned about Russian culture –and himself– during time spent in the final days of the USSR.
Featured music is "Wheel of Destiny" by James Saunders. and "World on Fire" by Kwame Binea Shakedown.