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- 1996 Jun 3 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Jan Nowak, Radio Free Europe, relating to the impact of the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the targeting of Radio Free Europe broadcasts towards the Communist Party leadership in Poland, 1953-1956; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the transmission of Khrushchev's denunciation speech by Radio Free Europe, 1956; the industrial unrest and rioting in Poznan, Poland, Jun 1956; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; the influence of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Radio Free Europe, 1956; the importance of Radio Free Europe as a part of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's eastern Europe policy, 1956. 22pp
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