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Print this article Previously classified U.S. government documents show that following the start of Voice of America radio broadcasts in February 1942 in response to the dangers and the turmoil of the Second World War, the first group of VOA managers and journalists uncritically embraced various Soviet propaganda lies. Among them was perhaps the biggest and the most lasting communist lie of the 20th century. For several decades the Kremlin’s propagandists and their supporters lied about the 1940 killing by the Soviet NKVD secret police of about 22,000 Polish military officers and government officials in what became known as the Katyn Forest massacre. VOA continued to promote the Soviet Katyn lie from April 1943 until the end of the war in 1945. Then for several more years after the war, Katyn was largely ignored in Voice of America broadcasts until President Harry Truman launched his “Campaign of Truth” in response to communist propaganda, and his administration replaced so

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