American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The American Committee for the liberation of the peoples of Russia ( American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia ; ACLPR) is one of many anti-communist organizations during the Cold War in the United States were founded. One goal of the committee was to offer refugees from the Soviet Union opportunities and prospects for a new beginning. It was funded by the US intelligence service CIA .

history

In 1953, the Committee established the radio station Radio Liberation , which in the 1960s in Radio Liberty renamed and 1973 by the National Committee for a Free Europe was founded stations Radio Free Europe merged. Radio Liberty broadcasts programs in the languages of the peoples of the former Soviet Union. The aim of the programs is - according to their own statements - to enable the peoples of the Soviet Union free access to information and western democratic basic values.

During its existence, the committee changed its name several times. Founded on January 18, 1951 as the " American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the USSR ", in May of the same year it was incorporated into the "American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia" ( American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia ). In March 1953 it was called the "American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism" ( American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism , or shortly Amcomlib ). Ukrainian emigrants who wanted to be represented by this committee refused to be called one of the peoples of Russia.

The addition "from Bolshevism" was dropped in 1956. In 1964, the committee was finally renamed the "Radio Liberty Committee".

In contrast to the National Committee for a Free Europe, the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia held back with public relations in the USA. Because of this, the committee was less at the center of criticism of political overthrow efforts.

literature

Ian Johnson: The Beachhead: How a Mosque for Ex-Nazis Became Center of Radical Islam. In: The Wall Street Journal , July 12, 2005.

Individual evidence

↑ Gudrun Hendges: State and political education: from the "center for homeland service" to the "Federal Center for Political Education" , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18670-2 , page 409
↑ Gudrun Hendges: State and Political Education: From the “Central Office for Homeland Service” to the “Federal Center for Political Education” , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18670-2 , p. 409 ff.

[1] Gudrun Hendges: State and political education: from the "center for homeland service" to the "Federal Center for Political Education" , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18670-2 , page 409

[2] Gudrun Hendges: State and Political Education: From the “Central Office for Homeland Service” to the “Federal Center for Political Education” , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18670-2 , p. 409 ff.