Soviet Samizdat in Radio Liberty

Those disagreeing with or protesting against the lawlessness in the Soviet Union presented their cases in the Russian language broadcast series of Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda) between 1970 and 1989. In these radio programs exceptionally brave civilians, scientists, writers, clerical leaders living under immense political pressure in the Soviet Union give account of political prisoners living in forced labor camps; of dissidents locked up in psychiatric hospitals; of Jews and Catholics wishing to practice their faith are repressed. These Soviet-era radio broadcasts from Radio Liberty in Munich are an exciting counter point to the propaganda spread by Soviet television, radio and the printed press.