All-Union Radio
| Type | Broadcast radio |
|---|---|
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Availability | National International |
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Launch date
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1924 |
| Dissolved | 1991 |
All-Union Radio (Russian:Всесоюзное радио, Vsesoyuznoye radio) was the radio broadcasting organisation for the USSR from 1924 until the dissolution of the USSR. The organization was based in Moscow.
The first All-Union Radio station, under the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, was opened upon Lenin's initiative (for a "newspaper without a paper" as the best means of public information) in November 1924. On November 23, 1924 the first regular broadcast was produced in Moscow on the Comintern radio station. In 1925, the Radio Commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) was organized for overall supervision of radio broadcasting.
On 30 October 1930, from Tiraspol, MASSR, started broadcasting in the Romanian language a Soviet station of 4 kW whose main purpose was the anti-Romanian propaganda to Bessarabia between Prut and Dniester. In the context in which a new radio mast, M. Gorky, built in 1936 in Tiraspol, allowed a greater coverage of the territory of Moldova, the Romanian state broadcaster started in 1937 to build Radio Basarabia, to counter Soviet propaganda.
When the Cold War started, Americans launched the station Radio Free Europe while Western broadcasts were launched in the Eastern bloc.
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