VOA 1947 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/category/voa-1947/ Cold War Radio History Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg VOA 1947 Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/category/voa-1947/ 32 32 Why Voice of America and BBC Had No Russian-Language Broadcasts Until After WWII? https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/why-voice-of-america-and-bbc-had-no-russian-language-broadcasts-until-after-wwii/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/why-voice-of-america-and-bbc-had-no-russian-language-broadcasts-until-after-wwii/#respond Tue, 27 Dec 2022 05:47:17 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=15348 Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien A partial answer to the question of why the Voice of America (VOA) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had no Russian-language radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union until after the end of World War II can be found in the biography of William Benton by Sidney Hyman. […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/why-voice-of-america-and-bbc-had-no-russian-language-broadcasts-until-after-wwii/feed/ 0 Voice Of America Launched Long-Delayed, Soft Broadcasts to Soviet Russia https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-launched-soft-broadcasts-to-soviet-russia/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/voice-of-america-launched-soft-broadcasts-to-soviet-russia/#respond Fri, 18 Feb 2022 05:39:00 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=14258 The first Voice of America broadcast in Russian aired from New York on February 17, 1947. Before that date, VOA did not broadcast in Russian or in Ukrainian, not even during World War II. Russian was the only major language missing in the VOA wartime broadcasting schedule. Testifying on February 28, 1946 before the subcommittee […]

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