Gorbachev overthrown (Monday 19 August 1991)
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Shortwave broadcasts-
01. Radio Moscow (13 hrs GMT. 15560 khz)
02. BBC World Service (9740khz)
03. Radio Moscow (13-15 hrs GMT)
04. BBC World Service (13-20 GMT.6195 khz)
Coup fails
05. BBC World Service (21 August 1991. 13 hrs GMT 9740 khz)
06. Russian Coup- Radio Moscow (22 August 1991. 13 hrs GMT)
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Radio Moscow (shortwave) January 1970.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
(Sound fair)
14 Dec. 1981 Radio Moscow 12.00 GMT 17860khz
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/PolishCrisis1981
Live from Radio Moscow- October Anniversary Parade
(Friday 7 Nov. 1969) 07.00 GMT. 16 metres.
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
(Sound quality- fair)
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.
It was divided into two countries- Czech and Slovakia.
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/TheCzechCrisis1968
Russian Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) information-
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/soviet-invasion-czechoslavkia
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Scott Nelson, for sharing the following recording:
Date of recording: 1/8/1987
Starting time: 0411 UTC
Frequency: 6.000
Location: Minot, North Dakota
Receiver and antenna: Sony ICF-6500W with indoor random wire
Notes: Programs include "News and Views", ID, "News in Brief", "Roundabout the USSR", various programming.
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jim Jordan, who shares this recording of Radio Moscow from September 19, 1984. This recording was made using a National Panasonic RF-2200 tuned to 9.5 MHz around 08:10 UTC. The location was South Shields, UK.
Jim notes:
A nice cold war piece from Radio Moscow on the double defection of the Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov.
The real story behind it was revealed ten years later here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he-came-he-saw-he-couldnt-take-it-he-was-a-soviet-defector-with-a-story-to-sell-and-duff-hart-davis-1383974.html
Poster of the putsch of August 1991. The confrontation between the Republican Russian Government and the Union State Government the USSR (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jack Widner, who shares this recording that includes coverage of the August 19, 1991 Soviet Coup Attempt. Jack shares the following recording notes:
Reports from BBC, radio Moscow, and a snip at the end of Czech Radio announcing the end of the state of emergency
Radio Moscow--Slight interruption at 5:15-30
BBC 05:30 - 12:46
Radio Moscow 12:47 -- note the news item on Yugoslavia of Slovenia's independence moves 18:25. This was the beginning of the dissolution of Yugoslavia
BBC 20:08
Radio Moscow 26:16 "News & Views"
BBC 27:10
Radio Moscow World service 28:11
Their interval signal at 38:03 the news that Gorbachev is back in control
BBC 40:24
Moscow 46:33
Radio Prague (?) 46:56 announces end of state of emergency
One of the advantages of hosting a contributor-driven shortwave radio audio archive, is receiving off-air recordings of defining moments in our world history. This is certainly one of them.
SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes:
"I've started to convert some of my old cassette shortwave recordings to mp3 files. I've uncovered a box of about 25 tapes with recordings mostly from 1990 and 1991. This was an interesting era for shortwave. There was the reunification of Germany, the breakups of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and then the First Gulf War. I monitored some of these events using my venerable Sony ICF-7600D receiver with the supplied wire antenna draped around my home office. I bought this receiver during a trip to Hong Kong (and the P.R.C.) in 1985. It was my first decent shortwave radio and I still have it but it has since been joined by several other receivers.
[...]
[The following] is a recording of President Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation speech as broadcast live by the World Service of Radio Moscow. As the announcer says, "a moment of history in the making." It begins at about the three-minute mark of the recording (at 17:00 UTC). The speech is followed by a program of classical music (filler), the News in Brief at 17:30 UTC, followed by part of the program "Africa as We See It."
Click here to download this recording of Radio Moscow World Service from December 25, 1991 on 17,670 kHz, beginning at 1657 UTC.
Many thanks to Keith Perron, for this short studio recording of Soviet Viewpoint from the Radio Moscow English language service.
This episode focuses on the reduction of nuclear weapons and a Soviet/US summit. We do not have an exact date of this studio recording--please comment if you believe you know which summit they mention in the broadcast.
Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:
Many thanks to David Firth, who is kindly sharing shortwave radio recordings he made on his reel-to-reel recording equipment in the late 1960's. Firth is uncovering and digitizing these recordings as time allows.
We are grateful for this recording of Radio Moscow, which Firth recorded in 1968.
Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:
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