Crusade for Freedom Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/crusade-for-freedom/ Cold War Radio History Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:56:45 +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 Crusade for Freedom Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/crusade-for-freedom/ 32 32  “Broadcasters for Radio Free Europe”: Transcription Disc from the Crusade for Freedom Era (c. 1958–1962) https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:41:20 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=25422 These two images document a 33⅓ RPM transcription disc titled “Broadcasters for Radio Free Europe.” The names listed and the format place it in the late 1950s to early 1960s, during the period when Radio Free Europe (RFE) operated publicly through the Free Europe Fund and the Crusade for Freedom campaign. The disc contains a sequence of short recorded statements by […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/broadcasters-for-radio-free-europe-transcription-disc-from-the-crusade-for-freedom-era-c-1958-1962/feed/ 0 The Radio Free Europe Fund: Civic Pageantry and Covert Funding in the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:55:54 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=23954 How the Radio Free Europe Fund used civic pageantry, fundraising, and public campaigns to support a covert Cold War broadcasting operation. Illustrated with archival photographs and documents.

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-radio-free-europe-fund-civic-pageantry-and-covert-funding-in-the-cold-war/feed/ 0 Operation VETO: Radio Free Europe’s Balloons with Leaflets to Czechoslovakia https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/operation-veto-radio-free-europes-balloons-with-leaflets-to-czechoslovakia/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/operation-veto-radio-free-europes-balloons-with-leaflets-to-czechoslovakia/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 05:38:05 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=20865 By Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In his book Radio Free Europe’s “Crusade for Freedom: Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950–1960,” Richard H. Cummings describes “Operation VETO” as an attempt by the Free Europe Committee and the Free Europe Press during the Cold War to encourage opposition to the Soviet-imposed regime in […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/operation-veto-radio-free-europes-balloons-with-leaflets-to-czechoslovakia/feed/ 0 Crusade for Freedom: Young women tell stories of lovelessness in Kremlin-controlled countries https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:55:31 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=9844 The 1950s “Crusade for Freedom” media publicity campaign in the United States and to some degree in Western Europe was ostensibly for the purpose of raising private money for Radio Free Europe (RFE), the U.S. government-sponsored radio station in West Germany. In reality, these private donations amounting to a few million dollars a year were […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/crusade-for-freedom-young-women-tell-stories-of-lovelessness-in-kremlin-controlled-countries/feed/ 0 Radio Free Europe Fundraising During the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-fundraising-during-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-fundraising-during-cold-war/#respond Sun, 02 Feb 2020 19:20:59 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=8893 This Cold War Radio Museum updated post covers Radio Free Europe advertising as well as a specific example of fundraising through the Federal Service Joint Crusade Campaigns in 1963. RADIO FREE EUROPE   80,000,000   Captive People Are Depending On You   The Communist-dominated people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria depend on your […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-fundraising-during-cold-war/feed/ 0 Advertising for Radio Free Europe During the Cold War https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/advertising-for-radio-free-europe-during-the-cold-war/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/advertising-for-radio-free-europe-during-the-cold-war/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:31:26 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=4230         This ad for Radio Free Europe was placed in American magazines in 1969 toward the end of the CIA’s involvement with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Such advertising by Radio Free Europe in American media would also soon end. This particular ad, as opposed to previous Crusade for Freedom and […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/advertising-for-radio-free-europe-during-the-cold-war/feed/ 1 Radio Free Europe 1966: A Girl Behind Barbed Wire Fence Ad https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-1966-a-girl-behind-barbed-wire-fence/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/radio-free-europe-1966-a-girl-behind-barbed-wire-fence/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:08:33 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=2136 Cold War Radio Museum The Crusade for Freedom was the name of an advertising campaign designed to get Americans to contribute money to Radio Free Europe which broadcast radio programs in various languages to the captive nations behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. The ad seen here is from 1966 and appeared in […]

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