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Article: The Electronic Iron Curtain
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 2, 1988
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THE KREMLIN has stopped jamming the last of the foreign radios
broadcasting into the Soviet Union, the American stations Radio
Liberty and Radio Free Europe (the latter reaches the volatile Soviet
Baltics as well as Eastern Europe), plus the official radios of West
Germany and Israel, which address special and sensitive Soviet
audiences. Soviet listeners could already tune in to the unjammed
major foreign stations, the Voice of America and the BBC. Only the
more dismal East European countries (Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria) still
jam. Otherwise the Soviet bloc now runs an international free market
in radio broadcasting-this in a region where tradition and technology
give international radio a ...