Georgian Editorial Office of radio `Liberty during the Cold War

After the Second World War, the inter-allied relations between the former allies overgrew into controversy and, as a result, there were formed antagonist western and socialist camps of the world. The controversy
between the international relations of the United States of America and the USSR is well known as The Cold War. This war is characterized with the harsh controversy of the reinforced militarization and the ideological fighting methods. Because of the international political situation, which was created at that time, the USA had some strategic interests in those formed groups of emigrants, which were fighting against the Bolshevik regime in the USSR. In order to have relationships with those groups, in the beginning of the Cold War, there were stirringly established committees with the name of public organizations in the USA. The state’s foreign police interests were being fulfilled by these committees. One of the courses of their work was creating wireless stations for the USSR people and for the socialist camp citizens on their mother tongues.
With the help of `the American committee fighting against the Bolshevism, which was established in the beginning of 1951 and with the collaboration of the USSR people emigration, radio `Liberty was established in 1953. It aimed to destroy so called `An Iron Curtain and the Bolshevik regime with the help of the USSR peoples’ native language broadcasts. The first broadcasting of the Georgian Editorial Office was held on the 18th March of 1953. The Editorial Staff had a regulation named `Political Directory. Those members of the radio staff, who stayed in emigration after the Second World War, used pseudonyms for the safety of their relatives living in Georgia. The content of a broadcast, its form and expression were of high importance. Radio broadcasts included interviews, reportages and talks around the round table about the issues such as: the free distribution of information, the freedom of a nation and a person. As well as that, some short radio plays, literature works philosophical essays and memoirs were read in wireless broadcasts. During the Cold War, the countries of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European socialist ones, exactly with the help of the radio `Liberty and its broadcasts were introduced with works, which were known only for self publications. Georgian Editorial Office had been collaborating with the political emigration till 1985. The broadcasts were sent to the leaders of the political emigration and to the Editorial Staffs of magazines and newspapers and their chiefs. Listening to the broadcasts of the radio `Liberty regularly was impossible during the Soviet Union. A radio rate was suppressed by a special device. Nowadays, when the Cold War belongs to the history, radio Editorial Offices and their importance are worth discussing. Radio `Liberty’s Georgian Editorial Office and other radio stations, which were established with the help of the US, were informational weapons during the Cold War.