Re: [HCDX] Afghanistan & Radio Moscow

["Andy Sennitt" <andys@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It was Vladimir Danchev, in 1983. He was quite young (23 or so I believe)
and his father was a Party official. He had become very disillusioned with
life in the Soviet Union, and one night he spontaneously decided to change
some of the words in the script, e.g. intervention became aggression.
Amazingly, nobody at Radio Moscow seemed to  notice, or turned a deaf ear to
it. So he did it again on his next shift, and his next...

Monitors at BBC Monitoring in Caversham could hardly believe their ears, but
initially decided not to draw attention to it, as they knew the consequences
for the guy concerned would be serious. But after five days of  such
behaviour, they decided that this was a huge story that they had to report.

The young man was sent for "re-education", and it was implied by the Soviet
authorities that he was suffering a breakdown and needed psychtiatric help.
I suspect the fact that his father was a Party official may have helped him
to avoid the worst treatment handed out to such people.  The immediate
consequence for Radio Moscow was that live newsreading stopped, and all
bulletins had to be recorded in advance and passed for transmission by
someone senior. Danchev subsequently returned to work at Radio Moscow, but
not as an announcer!

Andy Sennitt

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[mailto:hard-core-dx-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: 14 July 2005 12:25
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Subject: [HCDX] Afghanistan & Radio Moscow


Hi

Some time in the 1980s, one of the Radio Moscow English Service Newsreaders
referred to the Soviet troops in Afghanistan as invaders.

Does anyone recall who the newsreader was and what he said?

I'm writing an essay for my Sociology class on propaganda at Uni and would
like to include this in it but I need a reference.

Many thanks

Paul

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