May 10, 2006

CRUSADER RADIO:

Poland revives cold-war tactic: democracy via radio: Beamed nightly into next-door Belarus, Radio Racja supplements state-run media (Andrew Curry, 5/11/06, The Christian Science Monitor)

[H]ere in a ramshackle building not far from the Belarussian border, a Polish-funded team of reporters is offering an alternative to the state media monopoly in neighboring Belarus - a country they refer to as Europe's last dictatorship.

Mindful of the Western support that sustained their own opposition movement in the 1970s and '80s, Poles are resurrecting a tool that went out of style at the end of the cold war: radio.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 10, 2006 8:50 PM
Comments

They really should be the 51st state.

They deserve it.

Posted by: Sandy P at May 10, 2006 11:42 PM
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