International: The Milkman v. the MVD

Listeners who tuned in late on the midnight Moscow radio news got a shock—the Russian broadcaster was saying: ". . . Truth can only be arrived at if there is freedom to hear different points of view . . . Many facts and views are withheld from you, and there is no freedom of speech and free access to knowledge of how the rest of the world lives and thinks . . . [Foreign] broadcasts to the Soviet Union [are] jammed by your government. I wonder why. What has your government to fear?"

Off the Spike. The radio announcer was reading from...

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