wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) (09/06/84)
With a little research, Radio Moscow isn't hard to find. The NPR affiliate radio station I used to work for broadcast Radio Moscow news every friday. Each afternoon, the station broadcast a tape from a foreign service, and friday was RM's turn. Check with your local public radio stations to see if they carry it. My opinion of RM? They lay it on thick, very thick. The delivery is unaccented yet stilted, and heavy into the rhetoric that you thought was just used in movies. Another interesting source is a publication the Air Force puts out (unclassified) called "Soviet Military Press Review," or something like that. This is a translation of unclassified Soviet military publications, like our "Army" and "Naval Institute Procedings" magazines. Both translations and some Crillic text are included, for practice I suppose. I though RM laid it on thick `til I read this magazine, which is a translation of how they talk to their military people. No presentation of the other points of view, no positive views of the other sides, just pounding the party line, every other word an adjective. This is an exampl of how they presented a historical article on the "Great Patriotic War." "The valiant, every victorious soldiers of the glorious Soviet motherland soon made short work of the cowardly Hitlerites." You can't read it for very long. Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja)
jejones@ea.UUCP (09/10/84)
#R:ssc-vax:-8200:ea:3400032:000:313 ea!jejones Sep 10 13:29:00 1984 Agreed; Radio Moscow is *VERY* easy to hear. To get descriptions of the Great Patriotic War straight from the horse's--well, anyway, try what, judging by its strength in the US, I'd say is a Cuba-based relay on 11840 KHz, just about any time during the day. At night, 9600 KHz is fairly strong. James Jones