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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– December 29, 1981 – CBS News On The Hour + Spectrum Commentaries – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Poland in the news. This time with “official word” that order was restored, General Wozek Jaruzelski was still in charge and…
September 27, 1940 – In Berlin on this day, Germany, Italy and Japan entered into an agreement by which any of the signatories of the agreement would come to the aid of the other, should that signatory be attacked by…
– December 27, 1981 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 27, 1981 – Solidarity, despite official news reports to the contrary, was anything but dead. The protests now extended to the coal…
– Pussy Riot – Putin zazhigayet kostry – August 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pussy Riot – remember them? The Russian Punk band/Social movement who grabbed the world’s attention with a little ditty entitled Putin zazhigayet kostry (Putin…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”35137″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 21, 1938 – League Of Nations – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] September 21, 1938 – Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov address before the League of Nations – Gordon Skene Sound Collection…
This day in history – news of the threatened boycott of the Olympic Summer Games in Moscow in 1980. Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to the original newscast from February 19, 1980.
December 31, 1955 – The Year: 1955 – CBS Radio Network – Year-end wrapup of News Events – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting today, and going up until New Years Eve, we’ll be running Year-end Wrapups from years gone…
July 10, 1978 – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 10, 1978. News for this day was about trials in Moscow. The world expected two Dissidents to go on trial. Instead, there were four. Jewish dissident…
April 24, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 24, 1987 – a violent day, by all reports. Beginning with news from the community of Palm Bay Florida where a gunman went on a…
April 6, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 6, 1989 – As waves of Glasnost descended over London and the Cold War continued its thaw, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in London for…