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Recordings of the Radio Free Europe program broadcasted during Hungarian Revolution '56 have been found in German archives, digitalized and made public. more
 
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The anniversary of the Hungarian uprising ‘56
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Saturday, 28 January 2012

On November 3, 2011 at the Polish Radio in Warsaw took place the conference on 55th anniversary of Hungarian Revolution. One of the main topic was the role of Radio Free Europe in those events.

 
Visegrad Fund grants
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Friday, 14 May 2010

The Open Society Archives, custodian of the RFE/RL research materials, has obtained a commitment from the Visegrad Fund to support short-term research fellowships at OSA for work in the RFE/RL and other collections. The announcement is at link

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Origins of the Swiatlo Broadcasts on RFE
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The paper depicts the origins of broadcasts with Josef Swiatlo, a senior Polish secret police official, who defected to the West in December 1953. His revelations of terror within as well as by the Polish secret police and Communist Party led to a shakeup of the secret police apparatus and helped prepare the way for the Polish October in 1956. The paper by A. Ross Johnson is a expanded text of remarks presented at the Conference “Radio Wolna Europa w walce z komunizmem” [Radio Free Europe in struggle with communism], which was held in Warsaw, November 6-7, 2009, in connection with the celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of the Regaining of Freedom and Collapse of Communism in Central Europe. read
 
Radio Free Europe and Its "First" Audience, the Polish Communist Establishment
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Jane L. Curry, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Ca., shows the evidence is that many officials in the Polish police and Party listened covertly to Radio Free Europe. The then Polish elites used Radio Free Europe and other external media as a source of information and argument in internal battles; foreign radios influlenced even in all probability their decision making. The paper was prepared for the Conference “Radio Wolna Europa w walce z komunizmem” [Radio Free Europe in struggle with communism], which was held in Warsaw, November 6-7, 2009.  read
 
The Eagle Cage
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
1960 Crusade for Freedom / Radio Free Europe Fund film details the visit of 60 "Trippers", who visited RFE in Munich and Gloria, Portugal, plus the Iron Curtain on the Czech-German border and Berlin (before the Wall). Richard Cummings comment: "Propaganda, if you will, but still a fascinating look at RFE in 1960 in both Munich and Gloria, Portugal". 27'25
 
Free Europe, here
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Romanian Institute for Recent History (IRIR) in cooperation with former members of the RFE Romanian Desk team initiated a campaign for establisment in Bucharest a Free Europe Center of Research and Documentation.
 
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