This Is Radio Free Europe (1964)

When I was in school, we had to read. Woo hoo for today's youth...

Our fucking government spent billions of dollars2 broadcast nationalist propaganda. What a disgrace! I wish the govt would spend money on free movie channels. Turns out the nationalist govts were just as corrupt as commie 1's. Geez turns out that some commie govts were more liberal and kind 2their ppl than some nationalist1's.

u wrong

he (or she) is right, actually

Nazi war criminals bringing freedom to Europe.... how ironic.

I remember a commercial about Radio Free Europe would come on mid 60's  with a DJ playing a Drifers song, "On Broadway"

Radio Free is awesome! this is amazing part of our history!

Radio Free Europe is only there if YOU care. RFE is funded only if the American people fund this Crusade for Freedom effort, but now we know that this wasn't actually correct. I relate RFE promos (PSA's) much to the Foreign Intrigue (Dateline Europe) early fifties television series. This was the cold war era at it's best.

Now you can find on facebook,METRONOM (RADU TEODOR)-EUROPA LIBERA group.

Радио Свобода и сейчас единственное независимое СМИ, которое вещает на Россию.
Radio Liberty and now the only independent media, which broadcasts in Russian.

Interesting subject, but tedious and information-free video, not worth your time.

did it make a difference??

awesome

Radio crossed borders where people couldn't.

Awesome job RFE - thank you for caring all these years for the fate of Polish workers and I'm sorry to see you ceased to air your programs after Polish factories became privatized and millions became unemployed or had to emigrate to find menial low skill jobs in the West. Today you are nowhere to be found to explain the presence of American military bases in Free Poland or foreign ownership of Polish banks, real estate and industry. Btw Mr Andrzej Krzeczunowicz whose name is misspelled here as a descendent of old large landowners family in what is today Ukraine and after WW2 lost the family estate must have had a lot of personal reasons to be a very dedicated RFE employee.

HooverInstitution & Radio Free Europe, good job! :) :)

Yesterday on January 13, 2019, Ctibor Pečiva, a close family friend, died. He was the Political Block program editor for the Czech language desk at Radio Free Europe in Munich during the 1980s, a time when the Cold War had reached new heights, but also when Soviet-controlled communism finally fell. I felt that his legacy of public service deserves some form of commemoration. This historic film documenting the important work he and his colleagues did serves this purpose well. Because he, too, is Radio Free Europe:

Carrying nothing more than his work briefcase, he decided on a whim to jump on what may have been the last train leaving Prague for the West when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring movement. From that day on, his life's central theme became the opposition to the totalitarian regime of communism. In Radio Free Europe he found his way of fighting for change. For many years millions of Czechoslovakians and oppressed citizens of other countries in the Eastern Bloc depended on people like him to broadcast news that their authoritarian leaders tried to withhold, distort, or replace with lies. Without his kind's tireless service, people struggling under the yoke of communism would have had no reliable knowledge of political developments or life-threatening events such as the Chernobyl disaster.

If you lived during this time in Czechoslovakia and received vital news through RFE from a Pavel Brezina or Honza, the pseudonyms he had to use to protect his family still trapped under that totalitarian regime, it is because this man decided that your well-being and future freedom would depend on it.

His work was not without dangers. I still remember the day when he called us, his voice trembling, after a massive bomb attack had hit his workplace at RFE in Munich. RFE members had been targeted with poison in salt shakers and fell victim to assassination as in the case of the infamous umbrella murder. Having to live with a constant level of fear can take a heavy toll on a man's life. But it is not courage to have no fear, it takes courage to do the right thing regardless. We shall all remember for ourselves what was among his last words: "I still want to do something with my life!".

Ctibor, you have done enough. May you be forever remembered for your contribution to liberty and democracy as well as for the kind and generous man you were. May you rest in peace!

This is fascinating. I think with don't fully realised how half
Of Europe lived...isolated and dark from the truth.

The C.I. A. station

Brilliant !

Thank you for this video.

Fascinating history

Thanks for sharing