The Curtain Lifted
"THOUGH the iron curtain cannot be seen, it may be heard, in the jamming of western broadcasts to the U.S.S.R. and her satellite states. In a recent BBC documentary from 4YA this jamming was heard, bringing home a reality which the phrase "iron curtain," tarnished by over-use, can no longer do. The programme, Through the Iron Curtain, was up to the usual BBC standard, though in half an hour it passed rather too briefly over material which might have been profitably examined in greater length-the curious case of the Rumanian Communists distributing typewritten copies of the latest forbidden BBC bulletins, for example. It would have been interesting, too, to have heard a little more of Soviet reactions to the broadcasts. The snippet of a Russian satire on the unemployed porter with his ten-roomed flat may have sprung, as the programme sug-_ gested, from envy of higher living standards in the West; from what we were. given, it may equally well have derived | from a sceptical view of reports the BBC gave of those same standards.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 11
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178The Curtain Lifted New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 11
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