1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
North America
East Asia
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1914- 1984
1879- 1953
August 22, 1962
A Chinese propaganda source reports on Uyghur culture in Kazakhstan, a recent publication in Kazakhstan about a Xinjiang worker, and a letter from Xinjiang appearning in a literary journal.
January 5, 1961
Report on the implementation of the CC CPSU decree to broadcast radio programs to counter VOA and BBC broadcasts.
July 15, 1960
Report from the head of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the CPSU detailing the shortcomings of Soviet broadcast media in countering Western broadcasts. The document is noteworthy for its criticism of the poor distribution of Soviet newscasts in the Eastern part of the USSR, and acknowledgment of how Western broadcasts have filled this void. An interesting point is made on the habit of adapting Soviet-made receivers to capture Western shortwave broadcasts.
October 24, 1951
Decree ordering the USSR Ministry of Communications to assist with the jamming of Western radio broadcasts in Poland.
April 11, 1969
This document indicates the continuing influence of German-language and other Western media in Czechoslovakia nine months after the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Czechoslovak officials criticized the heavy-handed Soviet broadcasts of Radio Vltava, and viewed other Soviet proposals to counter Western influence as counterproductive.
December 27, 1977
This document from the Sixth Directorate of Bulgarian State Security thanks âSoviet comradesâ for their assistance in combating hostile propaganda against Bulgaria. It acknowledges the role of State Security in publishing articles in the Bulgarian media âexposingâ RFE and RL, and refers to joint Soviet-Bulgarian operations against Western radios.
December 30, 1985
This note regarding the results of the visit of a group of Interior Ministry officials to the KGB in Moscow contains a proposal to develop a coordinated plan to discredit RFE and RL.
April 14, 1967
This memo from N. Mesyatsev, Chairman, Broadcast and Television Committee, Council of Ministers, analyzes Western radio âpropagandaâ and credits Western broadcasts with being âan effective tool of ideological intervention.â The document notes that the broadcasts pay attention to Soviet dissidents, and mentions their use of humor and Western music.
November 26, 1966
This lengthy review of foreign radio propaganda by Y. Novikov, an official of the USSR Gosteleradio [State Television and Radio] Guidance Department, pays particular attention to what it sees as Western broadcastersâ attempts to discredit Marxism-Leninism and Communist economics, as well as the notion of convergence between capitalism and Communism.
June 25, 1953
This TASS bulletin containing the transcript of a Radio Liberation broadcast urging Soviet forces stationed in East Germany to âreturn to the barracksâ was sent to top Soviet officials. Radio Liberation, later to be renamed Radio Liberty, went on the air in March 1953.