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Indirectly
Historically, Sweden ended trade with Germany in November 1944. That is a bit late in the war, and Allies pressured them to do something much earlier, but there was always a threat of German army stationed in Norway and Sweden was practically isolated in Scandinavian peninsula. Add to that significant part of population that were anti-Communist ...
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One part of why Stalin was so brutal may also come from Russian history and outside forces. To this day, one of the reasons Russia expands its territory and contends with such a autocratic government is to protect itself from Western control and intervention. There was the Great Game, a proto-Cold War where the United Kingdom tried to use India to spread its ...
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This seems to be more of a language problem than anything else.
The Soviet Union would not impose these detailed requirements for getting a state from socialism to communism. While one might argue that Eastern European countries were somehow colonised by the USSR, one cannot argue that they were required to copy every detail the Soviet Union served as a an ...
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As Estonia is close to Finland, most time of the Soviet occupation was in Estonian Radio a department of Finnish broadcast. It started in 1947 (actually March 14th 1947, according to the chronicle of Estonian broadcasting, in Estonian, on the webpage of Estonian Broadcasting Museum) as Soviet propaganda channel and shifted to Estonian info channel during ...
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@LangLangC's answer mentioned
This gets even more interesting when one would look at the propaganda against each each other between Soviet Union and China
but did not go into details.
There is evidence suggesting that in the early 1980s until 1989, Chinese authorities prioritised jamming Soviet, Vietnamese and Taiwanese radio stations over Western radio ...
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Question:
Did the Soviet Union or its satellite states have any broadcast propaganda media for an international audience?
The official international radio service for the Soviet Union was Radio Moscow, or Radio Moscow International Broadcast Service. Its first broadcast was in 1923 in German. By 1931 it operated under 8 languages, By 1970 it broadcast in ...
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Let me add to the previous answer some Soviet media outlets.
Soviet Union, a journal published in 18 languages.
It had a supplement called "Sports in the USSR".
Moscow news - a newspaper published in English, and several other languages. (In 1970s this was the only periodical in English available to most Soviet citizens, so students read it to ...
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Yes. Ample supply. At least for print and radio.
Newspapers and magazines
Not really 'broadcast medium', but mentioned in the question:
Many versions printed directly under the auspices of a communist party, and openly sold as such. Example the Peking Review.
— West-German National football (soccer) team player Paul Breitner, Maoist at the time, reading the ...
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