{"id":23063,"date":"2016-12-27T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23063"},"modified":"2016-12-27T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:20:18","slug":"radio-free-europe-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/radio-free-europe-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Europe and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23064\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23064\" class=\"wp-image-23064 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg\" width=\"441\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg 441w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 RFE Christmas card<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Cummings, who shares the 1951 Radio Free Europe Christmas card above.<\/p>\n<p>Richard also notes that he recently published a two-part series on RFE and Christmas on his blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cold War Radio Vignettes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/christmas-and-radio-free-europe-part.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part One: Santa Claus, Freedom Girl and the Red Invader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/christmas-and-radio-free-europe-part_22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part Two: Selected Summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both excellent reads! Thanks, Richard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cummings, who shares the 1951 Radio Free Europe Christmas card above. Richard also notes that he recently published a two-part series on RFE and Christmas on his blog, Cold War Radio Vignettes. Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part One: Santa Claus, Freedom Girl and the Red Invader Christmas [&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":[3,288,43],"tags":[1560,752,3067,5239,1160,1094,5240,34],"class_list":["post-23063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-christmas","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-cold-war-radio-vignettes","tag-radio-free-europe","tag-rfe","tag-richard-cummings","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5ZZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20321,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/rfe-and-the-1956-hungarian-revolution-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":23063,"position":0},"title":"RFE and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Part 1)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Richard Cummings of the website, Cold War Radio Vignettes, who notes that he has posted a new article\u00a0about Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Part 1). 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As\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Radio-Free-Europe-Radio-Liberty-RFE.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Radio-Free-Europe-Radio-Liberty-RFE.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Radio-Free-Europe-Radio-Liberty-RFE.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18151,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/cold-war-clandestine-radio-from-greece\/","url_meta":{"origin":23063,"position":3},"title":"Cold War Clandestine Radio from Greece","author":"Thomas","date":"July 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: The links to Cold War Radio Radio Vignettes below became inactive just prior to publication.\u00a0Richard Cummings has kindly assembled the texts I referenced and made a PDF booklet available for SWLing Post readers. Click here to download. 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