The Polish Crisis (1981)
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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
Elections in East Germany (19 March, 1990)
/Radio Berlin International (1400 GMT- 21465khz). Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts on this topic-
https://archive.org/details/EastGermanElectionsNews19Mar90
Radio Peking: 20th Anniversary nuclear bomb (October 3, 1969)
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Radio Peking- statement on nuclear explosion to mark the 20th
Anniversary celebrations of the Communist Party of China. Broadcast 7.40pm (East Australian Time) Sunday, October 5, 1969.
Radio Peking recorded off air in Brisbane, Australia by Ian Holder
20th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China (3 October 1969)
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20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA
Radio Peking broadcast (Friday 3 October 1969) commemorating the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1949. Recorded from shortwave by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
(Sound quality- fair)
China's First Satellite (1970)
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Radio Peking- Sunday April 26, 1970
09-30 GMT. 19 metres
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder,
Brisbane, Australia.
China's first satellite information-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fang_Hong_I
Other broadcasts-
https://archive.org/details/@i_holder
Other broadcasts-
Hong Kong Handover (1997)
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HONG KONG HANDOVER JUNE 1997
Daily coverage of the Hong Kong Handover between Britain and China in 1997.
The broadcasts are mainly from China Radio International (CRI) which was previously Radio Peking/Beijing.
Other broadcasts are from the BBC World Service and Radio Singapore International.
Intros and off-air recording by Ian Holder, Australia.
Information on the Hong Kong Handover-
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0630.html
The Czech Crisis (1968)
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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
Death of Mao Zedong (1976)
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Radio Peking- Death of Mao Zedong (9 September 1976)
The death of Chairman Mao at 82 in 1976 brought to an end
the Cultural Revolution which cost millions of lives.
Monitored from Radio Peking shortwave service.
Commentary in English and funeral music.
Recording made off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia
Other broadcasts-
China Invades Vietnam (1979)
/Voice of Vietnam- Chinese Invasion of Vietnam-
18 Feb 1979. 20-30 GMT (i.e. 6-30 am Eastern Standard Time.
19 Feb 1979) 10-40 KHZ
Recorded off-air by Ian Holder, Brisbane, Australia.
Other broadcasts-
Voice of Korea: October 17, 2016
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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Walker, who notes:
This is the English service broadcast for The Voice Of Korea to "Latin America" from Kujang, North Korea. Recorded 0430-0530UTC October 17, 2016 using a Tecsun PL880, Welbrook ALA1530LNP, EmTech ZM2 antenna tuner and DXEngineering HF Preamp.
Listening location is Galena, Alaska. A village of 500 people in the rural central interior, 300 miles east of Nome and 300 miles west of Fairbanks
