Setting the Record Straight: Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Автор: WoodrowWilsonCenter
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European Studies
Cold War International History Project
While Hungarians of all political persuasions credit Radio Free Europe with helping to bring about the end of the Communist system, RFE's role during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution is widely criticized in Cold War histories. Ross Johnson will present a paper, part of a longer study of the history of RFE and Radio Liberty, that attempts to set the record straight. The study differentiates six principal criticisms in the Cold War literature about RFE's role in Hungary in 1956. It then tests these criticisms against the evidence now available from the RFE 1956 Hungarian broadcast texts and audio and the RFE policy and administrative records, all deposited at the Hoover Archives, as well as declassified State Department and German Foreign Office records, and memoirs of and interviews with participants. The study concludes that Western broadcasts evidently encouraged Hungarians to think that the United States would not let the Revolution be crushed. It argues that this belief arose from factual reporting of public manifestations of support around the world for the Revolution and the emotionalism of some broadcast commentaries rather than from any promises of Western military assistance or advocacy of continued military resistance.
Event speakers: Paul Henze,Kori Schake, A. Ross Johnson
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