starman wrote in message ...
helmsman wrote:


Uncle Joe (Adamov) did some fancy tap dancing after the collapse of the
USSR. Now he wants us to believe that he had no choice and was forced to
tow the party line at Radio Moscow. I don't doubt there was a lot of
pressure to conform at RM, especially when another employee disappeared
after doing his own version of the news one day. My problem with Joe is
he didn't have to work for Radio Moscow. I suspect the perks were more
than he could turn down.

If you lived in the USSR and were a journalist, in radio, TV or
newspapers, you didn't have much choice but to toe the line. Joe has
described in Moscow Mailbag how every show had to pass a censor.
Sometimes one censor would let something through that another one
would reject. He did his best to answer the questions within his
constraints IMO.
Simon