HISTORY Soviet Block Jamming of Western Freedom Radios
By Ted Lipien for Cold War Podcasts Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the…
Kirk Douglas on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien As Putin’s propagandists are again spreading lies around the world and trying to undermine American…
VOA repeats Russian claim: Stalin “saved European democracy”
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America dispensed—unchallenged—a propaganda lie from Putin’s disinformation specialists claiming…
VOA ignores VP Pence’s WWII anniversary speech in Poland
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As of 3:00 AM Central European time, September 2, 2019, the U.S. tax-funded…
HISTORY 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of America
OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist…
Support from George H.W. Bush convinced Lech Walesa ‘there was a real chance to get rid of communism’
Cold War Radio Museum Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa said last year that in 1987 the then…
Vice President George H.W. Bush interviewed for Voice of America by Ted Lipien and Wayne Corey in 1987
Reposted from Cold War Radio Museum Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service director…
History for Voice of America: General Eisenhower accused WWII VOA of ‘insubordination’
OPINION By Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett left out some critical information when she…
HISTORY Voice of America 1951 – ‘Drab’ and ‘Unconvincing,’ Rep. Wigglesworth Quotes VOA Listeners in Poland
BBG Watch Commentary As part of our HISTORY series, we repost today an article from the Cold War…
Voice of America 1951 – Presidents’ Day and Debates on VOA’s Future
BBG Watch Commentary Wishing all of our readers and contributors Happy Presidents’ Day, we repost the latest article…
Zofia Korbońska – a Voice of America journalist who countered Nazi and Communist propaganda
History Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of legendary Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service broadcaster…
Voice of America and Warsaw Uprising: Collusion with Stalin
Commentary By Ted Lipien “With genuine horror we listened to what the Polish language programs of the Voice…
Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1989 Voice of America and Polish TV program on fall of communism
BBG Watch History Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, died on…
VOA had a brief AP report after Zbigniew Brzezinski’s death; RT posted a full obituary
BBG Watch Commentary One of the major American planners of the Cold War victory over the Soviet Union,…
Katyn Cover-up – Hidden History of the Voice of America
BBG Watch History Very few Americans and few Poles know today that during World War II, the Voice…