Halt The Jamming of the Blue Right Away - The halting of Radio Free Europe jamming in 1968
Halt The Jamming of the Blue Right Away - The halting of Radio Free Europe jamming in 1968

Author(s): Milan Bárta
Subject(s): Politics, Media studies, Communication studies, International relations/trade, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; radio; jamming; RFP; 1968; Soviet Union; communist bloc; west radio stations;
Summary/Abstract: Radio stations broadcasting from the West to communist bloc countries became an important means of exerting ideological influence on their citizens. Radio waves radiated freely and without restriction through the ether across the Iron Curtain dividing Eastern and Western Europe. The communist rulers of Soviet Bloc states tried, therefore, to create a kind of aerial parallel to the Iron Curtain to run along the Western borders of their countries. Its designers intended the network of mutually supplementary jamming centers to become, thanks to international cooperation, an impenetrable barrier preventing as much as possible the citizens of communist states from receiving the signals of Western radio stations.

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