verification -- Khrushchev's appearances on TV

[Richard Robin]

The RFE/RL ad was just that - an ad using scare tactics. Since the official
story back then was that RFE/RL was privately funded (they actually lied
outright about the fact that they were on the U.S. government dole), they
ostensibly had to raise private funds. Another RFE/RL commercial should a
family somewhere in Eastern Europe huddled around a radio listening to "On
Broadway" - an interesting selection since the storyline of the song is
about a down-and-outer whose only dream is to make it on Broadway.

The ads had a big effect on me. I asked my mother if we contributed to
RFE/RL. "Not a chance," she answered. "They egged on the Hungarians in
1956." 'The U.S. will come to your rescue,'" my mother quoted the radio as
saying. Of course, we ended up helping the Hungarians then about as much as
we aided the anti-Sadddam forces in 1991 Iraq.

-Rich Robin
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Richard Robin, Associate Professor, Chair
German and Slavic Dept.
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20008
rrobin at gwu.edu
http://home.gwu.edu/~rrobin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "elenka" <elenka at UVIC.CA>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] verification -- Khrushchev's appearances on TV


> Dear colleagues:
>
> Several people remember seeing Khrushchev and the shoe incident on
American
> TV. Dr. Robin says it was in the ads by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Would
> on TV. Is there a way to verify this information? Did RFE/RL have a TV
news
> program on American TV? or just advertised their service? Would there be
an
> archive of the clips broadcast on TV?
> We're dealing with precise memories of cultural myths, not "false
memories" of
> history. In the case of K. cultural myths became part of the CW history.
>
> Elena Baraban
> elenka at uvic.ca
>
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