The “Fight for Peace” in the Airwaves – Tito, “the Chained Dog of Imperialists”

• Authors: Irén Simándi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The radio broadcasts from countries involved in the Cold War had a major role in promoting relevant propaganda. Of course, this applied to the Hungarian Radio Corporation as well. In this study, with an analysis of the documents of the Hungarian Radio, we will present a segment of the foreign language radio programs broadcast between 1949 and 1951; the years of the campaign against Yugoslavia, and personally against Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav party leader, who turned against Stalin. The character of foreign languages broadcasts were subordinated to the political propaganda and followed well ups and downs of the Cold War. In 1956, after the settlement of the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict, disappeared not only the Cominform and so its newspaper against Yugoslavia the “New Struggle”, but changed the tone against the West as well.

Keywords

EN

Cold War; foreign language radio broadcasts; propaganda; Yugoslavia; Cominform

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Journal: West Bohemian Historical Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 145-164

Contributors

author

Irén Simándi

• Institutional Departments of International Relations and History, Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, 8000 Székesfehérvár, Fürdö u. 1., Székesfehérvár, Hungary