Echo in the dark

[rainshifter]

The New Yorker: Echo in the dark. A radio station strives to keep the airwaves free. by David Remnick

In the land of the Soviets, the voice of the Kremlin was everywhere, an omnipresent reality-via-radio that long preceded Orwell’s dystopia. Lenin and Trotsky fomented revolution primarily in print—in the commanding editorials of Iskra and Pravda, in the frenzied leaflets passed around in St. Petersburg meeting halls and later reprinted in “Ten Days That Shook the World”—but the leading instrument of enculturation and inundation under Joseph Stalin was a broadcast technology called radio-tochka, literally “radio point,” a primitive receiver with no dial and no choice. These cheap wood-framed devices were installed in apartments and hallways, on factory floors, in train stations and bus depots; they played in hospitals, nursing homes, and military barracks; they were nailed to poles in the fields of collective farms and blared along the beaches from the Baltic to the Sea of Okhotsk. И т. д.

Comments

[prozzz.livejournal.com]

кстати, а что сейчас передают радио-точки? они же остались вроде.

я подумал, что самое мощное орудие пропаганды - моезда в сибирь, 3-4 суток, и чтобы радио выключить было нельзя! душеполезные песни

[rainshifter.livejournal.com]

хехе.))

там вроде либо «маяк», либо «говорит москва».