Word: coldwar
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...half a decade were once again obscured by artificial static that overrode many broadcasts. The resumption of jamming was obviously an attempt to muffle the world's outcry against the invasion by Soviet troops, and it represented no small effort. The Soviets switched back on all their coldwar jamming devices, which some experts number in the hundreds. They consistently tried to blank out the Voice of America, the BBC and West Germany's Deutsche Welle, and at various other times jammed French, Italian, Swedish, Turkish and even Monacan stations. That massive Russian station break still persists...
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