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- Title
Fantastic Truths, Compelling Lies: Radio Free Europe and the Response to the Slánský Trial in Czechoslovakia.
- Authors
FEINBERG, MELISSA
- Abstract
This article examines the coverage by Radio Free Europe (RFE) of the show trial of Rudolf Slánský in 1952 and contrasts this coverage with documents on the response to the trial within Czechoslovakia. RFE aggressively portrayed the trial as a pack of lies and condemned its anti-Semitism as not authentically Czechoslovak. The response within Czechoslovakia was more much nuanced. Most publicly accepted the trial as valid and acted in ways that underscored that acceptance. Within this acceptance, however, they varied from the trial script and brought their own meanings to the story. Those meanings were not always ones that either RFE or Czechoslovak leaders would have recognised as true.
- Subjects
CZECHOSLOVAKIA; RADIO Free Europe; SLANSKY, Rudolf, 1901-1952; TRIALS (Political crimes &; offenses); ANTI-communist propaganda; COLD War, 1945-1991; COMMUNIST countries; RADIO in politics; CZECHOSLOVAKIAN history, 1945-1992; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777312000501