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To: ild who wrote (23805)	12/26/2004 10:57:16 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Zeev's thoughts on the market for 2005: investorshub.com

To: ild who wrote (23805)	12/27/2004 9:59:44 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

OT. I promise to drop this topic after this post Radio Liberty broadcast directly to the various subpopulations of the Soviet Union in their own languages. It did much to encourage centrifugal self-deterministic movements in those populations. After nearly a millenium of Moscow-centered Russian expansionism, the central government found it could no longer hold all these accumulations together. I spent some time with one of the chief managers of the project, which operated out of Munich, and became aware of what they were accomplishing. Radio Liberty helped dissident populations feel that someone outside the Soviet Union was paying attention to them and encouraging them to resist the central government. I am not saying that Radio Liberty caused the breakup of the USSR but I am saying that almost nobody knows about its operations. It was an inexpensive propaganda weapon, perhaps of minor importance, but nevertheless effective, run by people dedicated to the destruction of the Soviet Union. All most Americans know is that Reagan talked about the "evil empire" and backed antimissile defenses. hoorferl.stanford.edu March 18, 1953: First Radio Liberty broadcasts in non-Russian languages The first non-Russian broadcasts were made in Adygei, Armenian, Avar, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Georgian, Ingush, Karachai-Balkar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Ossetian, Tajik, Turkmen, and Uzbek. Broadcasts in Tatar-Bashkir would begin in December; Belarusian and Ukrainian would follow in August 1954. The criteria adopted for determining whether to broadcast in a given language were (1) the population or population density (2) the existence of a developed, or developing, national self-awareness (3) the strategic location of the language group and (4) RL's transmitting capabilities.