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Voice of America WWII Communist Propaganda to Yugoslavia

Curator — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:53:05 +0000

Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Thanks to several lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, the U.S. Congress became aware during World War II of Voice of America’s (VOA) communist propaganda in broadcasts to Yugoslavia. Most members of Congress opposed such U.S. government-produced support for communist groups at American taxpayers’ expense while a few progressive […]

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April 17, 1943 – Voice of America airs Soviet propaganda lie on Katyn Massacre

Curator — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:45:25 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum Declassified documents in the National Archives show that a directive issued to on April 17, 1943 by the management of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) ordered its Overseas Branch in charge of what were later called Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to air and promote the Soviet propaganda […]

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