With the exception of the works of the author of this article there are almost no studies in modern Russian or foreign historiography specifically devoted to the development of Soviet “black” radio propaganda during the Great Patriotic War. This article continues the author’s series of publications on the history of Soviet “black” radio broadcasting in 1941–1945. It describes the work of the so-called “extraneous voice,” which operated on Nazi radio frequencies from August 1941 to May 4, 1945, and explains how this activity was organized. The author primarily focuses on the final period of the war and mainly draws on documents from the Department of International Information (OMI) of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (held in the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History), which supervised and directed the activities of NII-205, an institution that, among other functions, conducted Soviet “black” radio propaganda following the dissolution of the Comintern. The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the significance of the information space in the modern world as an arena in which leading powers defend their national interests.
USSR; Nazi Germany; Great Patriotic War; “black” radio propaganda; “stranger’s voice”; Comintern, NII-205. Glazov Aleksandr Andreevich – S