VOKS
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VOKS was an organization created by the USSR in 1925 and officially tasked with cultural exchanges with other countries, but was criticized by western government officials and press as being a propaganda organization. The organization was disbanded in 1958 and replaced with another "friendship organization" called the "Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries". VOKS had branches under various names in different countries including the "America Society for Cultural Relations with Russia" founded around 1926 and the Society for Polish-Soviet Friendship (TPPR) created in 1944. VOKS gained new notoriety when U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...

 accused American journalist Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...

 of colluding with the organization on his program See It Now
See It Now
See It Now is an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three times...

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