{"id":11922,"date":"2015-01-04T16:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2015-01-04T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:16:30","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-mikhail-gorbachevs-1991-resignation-speech-via-radio-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-mikhail-gorbachevs-1991-resignation-speech-via-radio-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Mikhail Gorbachev&#8217;s 1991 resignation speech via Radio Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Gorbachev_and_Reagan_1987-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11930\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Gorbachev_and_Reagan_1987-012.jpg\" alt=\"Gorbachev_and_Reagan_1987-012\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Gorbachev_and_Reagan_1987-012.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Gorbachev_and_Reagan_1987-012-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>One of the advantages of hosting a contributor-driven <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">shortwave radio audio archive<\/a>, is receiving off-air recordings of defining moments in our world history. This is certainly one of them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_4_1420297924783_22892\">SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_17_2_4_1420297924783_22890\"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve started to convert some of my old cassette shortwave recordings to mp3 files. I&#8217;ve uncovered a box of about 25 tapes with recordings mostly from 1990 and 1991. This was an interesting era for shortwave. There was the reunification of Germany, the breakups of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq and then the First Gulf War. I monitored some of these events using my venerable Sony ICF-7600D receiver with the supplied wire antenna draped around my home office. I bought this receiver during a trip to Hong Kong (and the P.R.C.) in 1985. It was my first decent shortwave radio and I still have it but it has since been joined by several other receivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_17_2_4_1420297924783_22902\"><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_17_2_4_1420297924783_22904\"><p>[The following]\u00a0is a recording of President Mikhail Gorbachev&#8217;s resignation speech as broadcast live by the World Service of Radio Moscow. As the announcer says, &#8220;a moment of history in the making.&#8221; It begins at about the three-minute mark of the recording (at 17:00 UTC). The speech is followed by a program of classical music (filler), the News in Brief at 17:30 UTC, followed by part of the program &#8220;Africa as We See It.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richard: many, <em>many<\/em> thanks for sharing this recording&#8211;I can&#8217;t wait to hear the other treasures you uncover in your collection.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_4_1420297924783_22906\">\u00a0For your listening pleasure:\u00a0<em>Radio Moscow World Service<\/em> from December 25, 1991 on\u00a017,670 kHz, beginning at\u00a01657 UTC.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioMoscowWS17.670MHz25Dec911657UTC\/Deletes%2FRadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download this recording<\/a>\u00a0as an mp3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11922-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/51a013dee4b0a2a2d2ef73e9\/t\/54a807fde4b09569a13bf76e\/1420299384101\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3\/original\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/51a013dee4b0a2a2d2ef73e9\/t\/54a807fde4b09569a13bf76e\/1420299384101\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3\/original\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3\">http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/51a013dee4b0a2a2d2ef73e9\/t\/54a807fde4b09569a13bf76e\/1420299384101\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3\/original\/Deletes-RadioMoscowWS-17.670MHz-25Dec91-1657UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the advantages of hosting a contributor-driven shortwave radio audio archive, is receiving off-air recordings of defining moments in our world history. This is certainly one of them. SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, writes: &#8220;I&#8217;ve started to convert some of my old cassette shortwave recordings to mp3 files. I&#8217;ve uncovered a box of about 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[3512,3513,3514,768,3515,4106,3516,737],"class_list":["post-11922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-president-mikhail-gorbachev","tag-president-mikhail-gorbachev-resignation","tag-president-mikhail-gorbachev-shortwave","tag-radio-moscow","tag-radio-moscow-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-richard-langley","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-36i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12056,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-vilnius-1990-1991\/","url_meta":{"origin":11922,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Vilnius 1990-1991","author":"Thomas","date":"January 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Richard Langley, has digitized another set of historic off-air recordings--this time, documenting the independence of Lithuania through Radio Vilinus. 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