BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

ecordings you hear in the background other, unrelated (other than made
during these dramatic hours and days, too) recordings.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Aug 22)
Wow, great recordings! Thank you, Kai.
I didn't study Czech or Slovak but here's what I'm hearing:
... from German Democratic Republic. We are broadcasting daily on the wave
of 210 meters or 1430 kHz at 0500 in the morning and 1830 in Slovak
language and at 0530 and 1800 in Czech language.
This is radio broadcasting station Vltava calling! This is radio
broadcasting station Vltava calling! We are broadcasting on the wave of
210 meters or 1430 kHz in Czech and Slovak language.
So Vltava had only one hour in the morning and one in the evening? That's
it? Unlike other Slavic people, Czechs and Slovaks are known for being the
"early risers" (Germanic influence?). I guess 5 am / 6 pm was a perfect
time for them. In Moscow everyone is still sleeping at 5 am and many
people are still working at 6 pm.
(Sergei Sosedkin-IL-USA, dxld Aug 22)
Media Network Newsletter August 20: Hello from Hilversum, Shortly after
mailing this week's Newsletter, Jonathan Marks advised me that he has put
online an MP3 file of part of the penultimate Media Network radio show,
which included an edited version of the programme made in 1988 to
commemorate 20 years since the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact
forces. Tonight marks the 40th anniversary, and the audio extracts in this
programme make me feel every bit as emotional now as I did 40 years ago
when listening to the live broadcasts from Czechoslovak Radio. If you're
too young to have heard it, this is well worth a quarter of an hour of
your time. Go to this page:
(RNW MN Aug 20; via Mike Barraclough-UK, dxld Aug 22)
Mike, thank you for sending the link. I was 22 years old in 1968 and I was
horrified by the Soviet-led invasion. The Radio Netherlands archive from
1988 recalling the events including rebroadcasts from the time made me
shudder. Thank you.
(Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, dxld Aug 22)
Thanks for sharing this, Bruce. As I read your post, I thought that those
old feelings that are so vivid even today might help understand what
Russians went through as a nation in 1999, during the US-led air campaign
in Yugoslavia.
I'm not saying that the events of 1968 and 1999 were identical. But the
emotional perceptions of '68 in the West and '99 in Russia seem to be
somewhat similar.
Of course, the bombing of Yugoslavia is a more recent event. Both
campaigns had shaky legal grounds. NATO's attack on Yugoslavia was much
more destructive, took a considerably higher civilian toll and - most
importantly - was well televised.
The invasion of Czechoslovakia was presented in the USSR as a self-defense
against an "aggressive" NATO expansion. At that time many Soviet people
didn't buy this argument. The Soviet intelligentsia was mostly supportive
of The Prague Spring.
Suddenly for today's Russia it's a different story. Czechs and Slovaks are
in NATO, not to mention the former Soviet Baltic states and a few