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Soft power, silenced?
Clayton Collins
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American soft power, through music and news, once crackled across the airwaves in the Soviet Union. Fred Weir reports from Moscow on nostalgia-tinged reactions to cuts to the U.S. Agency for Global Media that essentially silence Voice of America.
Inside Russia, VOA hasn’t been heard since 2014, Fred notes. Still, the mystique echoes. One scholar in Russia tells Fred “these radio stations had an almost legendary dimension,” a window to a forbidden realm of ideas, Fred writes, that kept intellectual life alive.
