"starman" wrote in message
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Uncle Joe (Adamov) did some fancy tap dancing after the collapse of the
USSR. Now he wants us to believe that he had no choice and was forced to
tow the party line at Radio Moscow. I don't doubt there was a lot of
pressure to conform at RM, especially when another employee disappeared
after doing his own version of the news one day. My problem with Joe is
he didn't have to work for Radio Moscow. I suspect the perks were more
than he could turn down.

BTW- Anybody have a recording of the renegade news reader incident at
RM? That guy was either a hero or crazy.


I never heard it, but I remember reading about it. Or maybe Glenn Hauser
mentioned it. Radio Vilinus was interesting to monitor back then. One day
I was surprised to hear some mild critisism of Soviet radio policy. It was
immediately paired with a balancing critisism of US radio policy. Very
unusual. By the time the Soviet paratroopers stormed the Lithuianian TV
building, they were verbally ripping the Soviets on an hourly basis. All
broadcast by powerful Soviet transmitters. I'm sure there were a few
insiders in Soviet broadcasting who knew exactly what was being said. They
could have have the plug pulled, but didn't. I'm thinking Joe Adamov wasn't
the only non-true believer in Soviet broadcasting.

Frank Dresser