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Five Years of Radio Free Europe Freedom Broadcasts
The piece recalls Radio Free Europe’s July 4 1950 launch to reach Czechoslovakia and neighboring nations with resistance news and culture. It notes dramatic growth from a blanket aired broadcast in Lampertheim to 28 studios in Munich Lisbon New York and Romania Romania Hungary Poland and Bulgaria coverage. It highlights the Hungary link Budapest III the shift to home service and a 20 hour daily schedule targeting Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland with broader reaches to Romania and Bulgaria. It ends with a puzzling line about France having about 20 million horses.
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New York
Radio Free Europe
Soviet Union
Freedom
Havelka
Jachymov
Czechoslovakia
Lampertheim
Germany
Munich
Passartstrasse
Budapest
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Lisbon
Portugal