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Gene Sosin (1924-2015) - one of the founders and leaders of Radio Liberation (Freedom) - worked in New York and Munich, heading the Program Department, organized international conferences and press appearances in defense of the station, invited Western figures to the radio microphone culture and politicians, building bridges between America and Russia. His memoirs are a story about the Cold War with a human face.

...Political jokes have been known in Russia since tsarist times. The most severe punishment for them was under the Soviet regime, especially under Stalin. The narrator could be sentenced to 25 years in the camps, and sometimes to death. Full of caustic irony, the jokes ridiculed the empty promises and slogans of Soviet propaganda. We often filled our programs with sharp thorns aimed at the party, the KGB, the low quality of everyday life and other aspects of reality. By uniting itself with listeners in ridiculing the hated system, Radio Liberty helped its image as a surrogate radio.

...Magnitizdat - recordings of materials not recognized by official propaganda, especially banned songs - occupied a large place in the energetic "underground" culture that flourished during the Brezhnev era It's time. From the early seventies, Radio Liberty began collecting a collection of tapes brought to the West by emigrants and transmitting them back to Soviet listeners. Three “bards” were the most popular at that time: Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Galich and Vladimir Vysotsky. The names of Yuli Kim (half-Russian, half-Korean), Mikhail Nozhkin, Novella Matveeva, Mikhail Ancharov, Yuri Vizbor, Anatoly Ivanov and Evgeniy Klyachkin were also known.

...“Heavenly” jammers worked on the principle of radio transmitters, sending signals inside Soviet Union precisely in those areas to which our waves were directed. But due to the fact that the height of the ionosphere over Western and Eastern Europe changes during the day, the signals of Soviet transmitters sometimes dissolved in space, and then the radio could be listened to without interference. Local jammers in big cities were, of course, much stronger than those described. But reception could be significantly improved by increasing the signal strength. Soviet citizens resorted to various tricks: some tuned to the edge of the frequency band, others bought foreign receivers or export models, which had a wider frequency range than domestic ones. Craftsmen - “radio doctors” - managed to adapt even Soviet receivers to listen to foreign radio stations. Outside the city it was easier to receive a signal. Car owners drove away from the center, and those who had a dacha even recorded programs on a tape recorder.

Translated from English: Olga Polenova and Ivan Tolstoy. Under the general editorship of Ivan Tolstoy

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ISBN 978-80-906779-6-8
Publisher Human Rights Publishers s.r.o., Praha
Publication date 2024-02-01
Number of Pages 562
Book series Библиотека альманаха Connaisseur
Bookbinding Softcover

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