Joe Adamov, voice of Moscow Mailbag on Radio Moscow
Christian Hansen
years on both the USSR's Radio Moscow and its successor station The Voice of
Russia, has died...reports vary but it's thought that he died on December
19th.
A link is here: http://www.vor.ru/index_eng.phtml?act=6257
He often turned up on American TV and radio programs as a spokesman for the
USSR and Russia, as his English was perfect and unaccented. He tried to make
himself sound like an ordinary Joe from mid-America rather than Joe Adamov the
Soviet broadcaster.
I remember listening to Moscow Mailbag years ago during my shortwave radio
listening phase. I was amazed that someone who broadcast for the Soviet Union
sounded so American.
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Christian Hansen <chrisha...@notrash.btinternet.com.invalid> wrote in
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> Apparently Joe Adamov, the Russian broadcaster who was heard for more than
60
> years on both the USSR's Radio Moscow and its successor station The Voice
of
> Russia, has died...reports vary but it's thought that he died on December
> 19th.
>
> A link is here: http://www.vor.ru/index_eng.phtml?act=6257
>
> He often turned up on American TV and radio programs as a spokesman for
the
> USSR and Russia, as his English was perfect and unaccented. He tried to
make
> himself sound like an ordinary Joe from mid-America rather than Joe Adamov
the
> Soviet broadcaster.
>
> I remember listening to Moscow Mailbag years ago during my shortwave radio
> listening phase. I was amazed that someone who broadcast for the Soviet
Union
> sounded so American.
> --
The amazing thing was that he kept his job as Soviet/Russian Answer Man for
American audiences, working for the Soviet/Russian government, through so
many shifts in power and policy, including the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A truly gifted propagandist, he and Vasily Strelnikov, the "loose cannon"
who loved American Top 40 radio so much that he styled his "Vasily's
Weekend" show after it, were the best things about Radio Moscow in my 30
years of serious SWLing.
Howard
H Glazer
Terry del Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:41:20 +0000 (UTC), Christian Hansen
> <chrisha...@notrash.btinternet.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >I remember listening to Moscow Mailbag years ago during my shortwave
radio
> >listening phase. I was amazed that someone who broadcast for the Soviet
Union
> >sounded so American.
>
> list somewhere over that (despite the fact that the letter was
> critical).
>
Lucky you. I tried, but never got mine read. I did get a couple read on
Radio Budapest ("Radio Budapest Shortwave Club") and Radio Canada
("Listeners' Corner"), though.
> It wasn't usually an accent that clued you in to the fact that you
> were listening to Radio Moscow, it was that...I don't know how to
> describe that sound. Not exactly "echo chamber"...kinda like they
> were in a big room...I dunno...you just always knew it was them as
> soon as you tuned it in.
"Big room" describes it perfectly. And if the audio wasn't a giveaway, that
long, long list of frequencies read at the beginning and end of each
transmission was. Those evening broadcasts to North America were all over
the dial.
>
> Vladimir Pozner was another old-time Radio Moscow guy without an
> accent. Used to turn up on TV here in the US once in a while.
>
I think he used to fill in for Adamov on the mailbag show occasionally, too.
Howard
Brad Ferguson
Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Vladimir Pozner was another old-time Radio Moscow guy without an
> accent. Used to turn up on TV here in the US once in a while.
Pozner Jr., I guess you'd call him, was the son of a Soviet
intelligence operative (also named Vladimir Pozner) who spied on the
U.S. during WW2. The younger Pozner doesn't have an accent (well, he
has a Noo Yawk accent, but you know what I mean) because he moved to
New York with his family in 1940, when he was six.
Pozner graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1948, the
year that the family moved to what soon became East Berlin. He's
currently on Russian TV as a commentator and political-program host,
and remains very popular.
danny burstein
[ snip ]
>Pozner Jr., I guess you'd call him, was the son of a Soviet
>intelligence operative (also named Vladimir Pozner) who spied on the
>U.S. during WW2. The younger Pozner doesn't have an accent (well, he
>has a Noo Yawk accent, but you know what I mean) because he moved to
>New York with his family in 1940, when he was six.
>Pozner graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1948, the
>year that the family moved to what soon became East Berlin. He's
>currently on Russian TV as a commentator and political-program host,
>and remains very popular.
Could we please, please, send Phil Donahue back with him before
he (Phil) starts another tv series?
( Phil and Vladimir had frequent television chatskies...)
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Christian Hansen wrote:
> Apparently Joe Adamov, the Russian broadcaster who was heard for more than 60
> years on both the USSR's Radio Moscow and its successor station The Voice of
> Russia, has died...reports vary but it's thought that he died on December
> 19th.
>
Ah! Another old-line Communist bastard dead. Good riddance!
Charlene
Living in Russia before the Revolution was a bit of a
walking-on-eggshells game, especially during the reigns of Stalin and
Brezhnev, but after 1991 he gave interviews where he decries the older
Russians who want communism back, saying, "don't you remember what it
was like? Don't you remember the secret police?" and things like that.
wd41
robertc...@yahoo.com
This sounds rather like what I will call, for lack of a better word,
Tookieism--the belief that a man can "redeem" himself for a lifetime of
evil-doing by performing a few symbolic gestures that show he has
reformed.
Really, the man spent a lifetime defending an "evil empire." His
about-face looks like nothing more than opportunism.
J. Eric Durbin
Are you a religious man, Robert?
robertc...@yahoo.com
Not the kind who is fooled by the likes of Adamov and Williams.
King Daevid MacKenzie
>> Pozner graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1948, the
>> year that the family moved to what soon became East Berlin. He's
>> currently on Russian TV as a commentator and political-program host,
>> and remains very popular.
>
> Could we please, please, send Phil Donahue back with him before
> he (Phil) starts another tv series?
>
> ( Phil and Vladimir had frequent television chatskies...)
...Donahue was drawing larger audiences just before his purging than any
of the rightwingers -- Matthews, Abrams, Cosby, Scarborough, Carlson -- on
MSNBC do now. Even Olbermann's average falls short of Donahue's...
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I recall Adamov saying once that his own father had been arrested by
the secret police.
I'll cut him some slack. He did what he needed to do to survive. I
always suspected he had no use for the Communists. R.I. P., Joe.
Posner, OTOH, always seemed to me to be a True Believer. Too clever by
half, as the British used to say. AJG .