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Silencing VOA Is Like Silencing America

contrarian.substack.com · MARVIN KALB · last updated
Have you ever heard of Willis Conover? You would have if you were a young Russian, tired of communist propaganda during the Cold War, desperate to listen to the swing and jazz music of the West.
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