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The article discusses the operations of the Social Committee for National Radio Broadcasting in the Olsztyn region based on source materials from the State Archives in Olsztyn and articles in local press. Despite the socialist authorities’ plans to involve the local community in the process of building the national radio network, premiums and other benefits were illegally claimed by post office workers, civil servants, teachers and political authorities. The campaign did not bring the expected results, and the Committee was dissolved four years after its creation. The article cites interesting source materials to discuss political and social phenomena in Poland during the Stalin era.