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Wilfred Burchett | |
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| Born | 16 September 1911 Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 27 September 1983 (aged 72) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Known for | Anti-imperialist journalism |
Wilfred Graham Burchett (16 September 1911 – 27 September 1983) was an Australian journalist who reported on conflicts in Europe and Asia throughout the Cold War. Burchett was notable for being one of the few Western journalists who reported accurately on socialist countries and the crimes of imperialist countries during the Cold War.
Burchett was the first Western journalist to report on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earning the ire of the U.S. government who were attempting to conceal the effects of the bombs. Seeing the devastation inflicted upon innocent Japanese people by the West and his treatment by Western governments helped radicalize Burchett towards anti-imperialism and he would go on to cover the DPRK and Vietnam favourably in their wars against Empire.[1]
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- (1951) Cold War in Germany
- (1951) Peoples' Democracies
- (1964) My Visit to the Liberated Zones of South Vietnam
- (1968) Vietnam Will Win!
- (1968) Again Korea
- (1970) Library:The Second Indochina War
- (1978) Southern Africa Stands Up
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- ↑ Jeremy Kuzmarov (2026-08-10). "Wilfred Burchett: One of the Greatest War Correspondents of 20th Century and First Western Journalist to Expose Horrors of Atomic Attack on Hiroshima" CovertAction Magazine. Archived from the original on 2026-08-11.