The dismantling of the VOA is to serve Steve Bannon's wealthy march through Europe to dismember the European governments. The VOA is serving the purposes of Vladimir Putin.

The VOA no longer is a reliable place for news.

February 17, 2017
By Marissa Melton

VOA jazz broadcaster Willis Conover interviews the legendary Louis Armstrong.

But the Soviet government fought back. In April 1947, just over two months after the broadcasts started, the Soviets began jamming the radio signal electronically.

"Hello, this is New York calling." (click here) The words, in Russian, hit Russian airwaves on Feb. 17, 1947 — the first Russian broadcast of the Voice of America.

The broadcasts were an integral part of the United States' propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union, which was seen as the new threat once World War II was over in 1945.

VOA, which began during the war as a way to convey American news and policies to occupied areas, told its Russian listeners it was meant to "give listeners in the USSR a picture of life in America." Like its other services, VOA's Russian service meant to give its audience the "pure and unadulterated truth" about life beyond Soviet borders....