In early March 1951, Radio Moscow suddenly went off the air but came back on a few hours later with a weaker signal and unfamiliar announcers. A little later Joseph Stalin came on the air to indicate he survived the American atomic bombing of Moscow and for Soviet workers to continue the struggle for the inevitable victory of socialism. Leading announcer Yuri Levitan was one of the announcers no longer on the air, and was replaced by Roman Amfiteatrov. This article is a stub because the work is part of a larger, as-of-yet incomplete series.