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Jamming Was a Sign of Effectiveness of Western Broadcasts

Curator — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:33:39 +0000

Soviet jamming was a sign of the effectiveness of Western radio broadcasts. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were consistently jammed. The Voice of America was jammed only during some periods. Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum In his book Operation Suicide: “Those Strange Bridges to Communism,” published in 1967, American journalist Eugene Lyons, a former communist […]

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Soviet Union Resumes Jamming of Voice of America Over Solidarity Trade Union Rise in Poland

Curator — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:35:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On August 20, 1980, the Soviet Union resumed jamming radio broadcasts by the Voice of America (VOA), the BBC, and the Deutsche Welle (DW). Soviet jamming was a sign of the effectiveness of Western radio broadcasts. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were consistently jammed during the Cold War. The Voice […]

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Soviet Bloc Jamming of Western Freedom Radios

Curator — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:54:18 +0000

Toward the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, the Republican administration of conservative President Ronald Reagan greatly increased spending on U.S. international broadcasting to the Soviet Union and to other communist-ruled nations. Broadcasts to nations behind the Iron Curtain were carried out by the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe (RFE) and […]

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