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Rare Recording of the Voice of America 1986 Polish Broadcast – July 21, 1986

Curator — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:16:58 +0000

Summary of the Voice of America Polish Service Broadcast July 21, 1986 — 8:00 p.m. Warsaw time This rare recording of a Voice of America Polish Service evening program from July 21, 1986, survives because it was made at the request of the National Security Agency. It was likely used as a Polish-language training aid […]

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Envelope from a Letter Addressed to the BBC Polish Service in 1940

Curator — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:58:41 +0000

One of the newest exhibits of the online Cold War Radio Museum is an envelope addressed to the news department of the BBC Polish Service, posted in Great Britain in March 1940. The envelope has the inscription “PASSED BY CENSOR,” indicating that the British military censorship had reviewed the letter sent from Plymouth, and […]

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Polish Radio Host Who Resigned from Voice of America to Avoid Broadcasting Soviet Propaganda Lies About Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:18:09 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien We know of only one Voice of America (VOA) journalist, Konstanty Broel Plater, who resigned from his job at the U.S. government radio station during World War II in protest against the orders from the VOA management and the editors in the Office of War Information (OWI) in […]

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From Risking Life As A Young Anti-Nazi Scout In Poland To A Cold War Broadcasting Career At Radio Free Europe and Voice of America

Curator — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 03:43:34 +0000

By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Updated February 17, 2024 Marek Walicki, the former journalist of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe and the Polish section of the Voice of America, is the author of Z Polski Ludowej do Wolnej Europy (From People’s Poland to Free Europe), Bellona, Warsaw, 2018, a […]

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USAGM honors VOA Polish broadcaster Zofia Korbońska in 2020

Curator — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:49:17 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum During the short tenure of Michael Pack, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO appointed by the Trump administration, the agency honored the former Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service editor and broadcaster, World War II anti-Nazi Polish Underground Army (Armia Krajowa) member, Zofia Korbońska, who died in 2010. […]

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Solidarity Leader Praises Ronald Reagan, Voice Of America

Curator — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:56:00 +0000

Right after the declaration of the martial law in Poland in December 1981, U.S.-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe expanded their radio broadcasts. These broadcasts continued during the martial law. VOA and Radio Free Europe interviewed Solidarity leaders who escaped imprisonment and reported on their statements and activities. VOA also reported on U.S. […]

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Soviet Bloc Jamming of Western Freedom Radios

Curator — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:54:18 +0000

Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the Republican administration of conservative President Ronald Reagan greatly increased spending on U.S. international broadcasting to the Soviet Union and to other communist-ruled nations. Broadcasts to nations behind the Iron Curtain were carried out by the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe (RFE) and […]

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Polish-English VOA Newscast 1990

Curator — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 05:07:20 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum The Cold War was almost over in 1989-1990. The Voice of America was looking for new ways to deliver news to Eastern Europe. The bilingual VOA Polish-English newscast was one of several projects initiated in the VOA Polish Service. The ten-minute bilingual newscast was eventually rebroadcast daily on Program One of […]

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Martial Law Prisoners in Poland Praised Reagan, VOA and RFE

Curator — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:05:36 +0000

Originally posted on December 4, 2013 Today’s political prisoners who are fighting for democracy and human rights are still being held in China, Iran and in many other countries. While much of Central and Eastern Europe, previously under Soviet domination is now free, Belarus and Russia are still ruled by autocratic leaders and pro-democracy forces […]

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Zbigniew Brzezinski on Fall of Communism, VOA

Curator — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:53:35 +0000

In a 1989 Worldnet television program moderated by Ted Lipien, then director of the Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service, and broadcast on VOA Polish radio program, Polish Television and Polish Radio, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski discussed historic political changes which were taking place at that time in Poland and throughout East and Central Europe. Dr. […]

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