Andy Sennitt
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:36:20 -0700
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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: 14 July 2005 12:25 To: Hard-Core-DX 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 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt