BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Broadcast to Central America. Place of reception was at cafe area outside
of Hotel Silveria, Vaasa, received by SONY ICF-2001D.
(Kato-JPN, on EDXC trip to FIN and Baltics, dswci DXW Sept 17)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA/CSSR [History] The 40th anniversary of the events of
August 1968 has been featured recently in the programming of all Czech
Radio stations, on its website as well as in the publishing plan of
Radioservis. Czech Radio played a unique role in informing the public at
the time, and it is therefore fitting that 40 years later it continues to
help its audience remember the events of 1968.
The new website at offers unique historic materials
related to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact armies.
For the first time ever, visitors to the website can listen to a complete
recording of Czechoslovak Radio broadcast from August 21 and 22, 1968,
view an extensive gallery of yet unpublished photographs, and listen to
authentic memories of a Soviet soldier, among other things. Some parts of
the broadcast are well known but this is the first time the whole
broadcast has been made available.
Radio Prague - the International Service of Czech Radio has launched
special websites dedicated to the occupation in 1968 in five foreign
languages. The sites include audio clips of authentic broadcasting of
radios outside the Czech Republic, kindly provided by colleagues from SRF,
MDR, RBB, WDR, DKU, ORF, BBC, DRA (Deutsches Rundfunk Archiv).
Here are the links:
Czech -
English -
German -
French -
Spanish -
Russian -
Audiogallery:
Archive materials from August 1968:
Radio Prague broadcast from August 25th, 1968
US President Lyndon B. Johnson urging the Soviet Union to withdraw its
troops from occupied Czechoslovakia August 21, 1968
Deutsche Welle English language broadcast from August 21st, 1968 : report
on a demonstration outside the Soviet Embassy in Bonn.
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: interview with Reuben Falber, Assistant
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: BBC correspondent Dennis Blakely reporting
on the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia from Moscow
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: Moscow Radio reporting on the invasion of
Czechoslovakia as "brotherly assistance" made at the request of the
Czechoslovak government
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: US President Lyndon B. Johnson condemning
the Soviet-led invasion
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: Jan Muzik, the Czechoslovak representative
at the United Nations addressing the UN Security Council meeting on August
21st
BBC broadcast August 21, 1968: Lord Caradon, the British representative at