Yuri Levitan

Yuri Borisovich Levitan (Russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан) (2 October 1914 - 4 August 1983) was a Soviet radio announcer famous for his wartime reports of the battles on Radio Moscow, which usually began with "Attention, Moscow is speaking!" (Russian: Внимание, говорит Москва!). During World War II, Levitan announced battlefield victories, air raid warnings, and the surrender of Germany to the Soviets on May 9, 1945.[1] He also announced the first public acknowledgment of Joseph Stalin's death, and the first manned space flight. His voice was instantly recognizable by the Soviet public.

Yuri Levitan in The Hot War
Yuri Levitan (1914-1951) was the voice of Radio Moscow for the first few months of World War III, much as he had been in the last war.

On February 15, 1951, Levitan announced that the United States had used atomic bombs Zywiec in Poland, Szekesfehervar in Hungary, and Ceske Budejovice in Czechoslovakia. He reported that the U.S. claimed those cities were chosen because they were transportation hubs, but Levitan calmly claimed that the Americans acted out of blood lust.