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‘Tu Mówi Warszawa’ – Polish Radio Propaganda Abroad Before 1981 Martial Law

Curator — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:41:52 +0000

By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum On December 13, 1981, the communist government of the Polish People’s Republic subservient to Moscow introduced martial law and formed a military junta in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to crush the Solidarity (Solidarność) independent trade union movement. December 13, 2023 marks the 42nd anniversary of the mass arrests and further […]

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Religious Programs at the Voice of America

Curator — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:38:34 +0000

Anti-communist atheist Bertram D. Wolfe discovered that Voice of America (VOA) English-language service writers could not write persuasively about religion in communist-ruled nations in the early 1950s. Religious programming was then and continues to be a challenge for VOA’s American-born officials and broadcasters, partly because of the wrongly perceived separation of church and state concerns […]

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Beware of Government Propaganda “Experts”

Curator — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:12:48 +0000

Disinformation governance by government propaganda experts can be dangerous, judging by the record of the early officials in charge of the Voice of America and journalists duped by Soviet propaganda. Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum As the Voice of America (VOA), the United States government’s radio station for international audiences, observes its eightieth […]

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Letters from Australia to the Voice of America in New York in the late 1940s

Curator — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 05:25:36 +0000

As the Voice of America (VOA), the United States government radio station for international audiences, observes its eightieth anniversary, it may surprise Americans who know about its existence that in its first years during the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), the U.S. taxpayer-funded broadcaster had a long period of intense fascination with Soviet […]

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Richard Nixon (R-CA) on Voice of America Circa 1951

Curator — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:04:04 +0000

In the early 1950s, the Voice of America (VOA) started to attract bipartisan support after several years of strong criticism earlier, mostly from Republicans but also from a number of Democrats, that some of VOA’s pioneer executives and journalists hired during World War II were overly sympathetic toward the Soviet Union and toward communism, and […]

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