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RFE/RL in the Age of Glasnost |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Mark G. Pomar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,925 Words, 12,534 Characters |
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From its very inception in 1953, Radio Liberty (RL) has been vilified by the Soviet Union and its broadcasts in the 12 languages spoken there have always been jammed. In spite of the vicissitudes of Soviet foreign and domestic policy--from Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and "thaw" to Leonid Brezhnev's economic stagnation and foreign policy activism and now to Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)--the Soviet attitude toward RL has remained unchanged. The Munich-based station is viewed as an implacable foe of the communist regime and a wellspring of dangerous ideas and information about internal Soviet affairs.
Radio Free Europe (RFE), broadcasting to countries of Eastern Europe since 1950, has been the target of similar, though somewhat more m...
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...stom Soviet listeners to expect more truthful information in their media. As that process develops, official media, unless they undergo radical change, will be found increasingly inadequate. The people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe will want to know the whole story. And they will turn to the RFE/RL, which will be there to provide it, just as they have been doing for well over 30 years.
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