Hello Folks:

I used to listen to Radio Peking and other communist stations in the early
60's. They provided me with a lot of laughs in their own perverse ways
...... between sections where I was afraid they were going to bomb the
western world and fry my 14 year old butt.

News stories would include statements along the line of "Under the glorius
leadership of Chairman Mao, the happy workers of China sets a world record
for hoe handle production to counter the threat of the US aggressor" and
other sayings like " running dog lackey of the US military industrial
complex" and other neat things like that which would leave me rolling on the
floor in laughter.

Radio Moscow seemed to always have a news story or two a week claiming that
a Soviet inventor had first discovered things like the airplane, the
refrigerator, the gasoline motor, the TV set, and almost everything else
under the sun .... supposedly to discredit any Western world inventors and
grab the "glory" for the USSR.

Radio Havana Cuba was also good for a real scream or two as well. I recall
their heavy use of reverb while talking about the glorious revolution and
the wonderful leadership of Fidel.

I was wondering if anyone had any recordings of stations from that time
period, or knew of any website describing these stations?

Listening during the Cold War era was far more exciting than tuning across
the band today.

Regards,
Lee