Czechoslovakia Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/czechoslovakia/ Cold War Radio History Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:37:50 +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 Czechoslovakia Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/czechoslovakia/ 32 32 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 The Iron Curtain Isn’t Soundproof RFE ad 1966 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-iron-curtain-isnt-soundproof-rfe-ad-1966/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-iron-curtain-isnt-soundproof-rfe-ad-1966/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:05:55 +0000 https://coldwarpodcasts.com/?p=1868 1966 Radio Free Europe Fund radio commercial and magazine ads. 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 […]

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]]> https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/the-iron-curtain-isnt-soundproof-rfe-ad-1966/feed/ 0 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of America https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/listening-to-western-broadcasts-in-communist-ruled-czechoslovakia/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/listening-to-western-broadcasts-in-communist-ruled-czechoslovakia/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:05:40 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=4394 OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien Note: The article has been updated to include information that Heda Margolius Kovály had worked in the 1970s as a freelance reporter for the Voice of America Czechoslovak Service under a radio name Kaca Kralova. A declassified CIA report from 1953 featured a claim by […]

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