The Czech crisis - a podcast by Cities and Memory

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"Friday 23 August,1968. Radio Moscow transmission to Australia

31 metres 13-30 hrs GMT. Announcer, Boris Novikov (1925- 1997)



Twenty nine years after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938,

followed by WW2, the Warsaw Pact countries led by Russia invaded the country.

This shortwave broadcast was recorded off-air in Australia by Ian Holder and gives the Russian view of the event. Less than two years after the fall of Communist Russia in 1991, the Republic of Czechoslovakia ceased to exit."




Recorded by Ian Holder, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive.




Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave



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