Volksstimme (Austrian newspaper)

Volksstimme (German: People’s Voice) was a communist newspaper published between 5 August 1945 and 3 March 1991 in Vienna, Austria.

The newspaper was first published in Vienna on 5 August 1945 under the name of Österreichische Volksstimme (German: Austrian People's Voice).

[1] Its frequency was also changed over time: it was started as a daily, but then it began to be published on a weekly basis.

[7] Volkstimme was deeply affected from the Soviet activities in Europe during the Cold War due to its reports and the different approaches in the Communist Party.

[8] Following the Prague Spring and the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union a conflict occurred in the Austrian Communist Party which also affected Volksstimme in that most of its reporters left the paper in 1968.