USSR
In
1939 the Russians
use the frequency of the
Finnish
long wave transmitter in Lahti to broadcast in Finnish. During the war
a large number of Soviet
stations will use the frequency for their domestic broadcasts. The
Finnish authorities take countermeasures.
On 31 March
1942 Army
station Smolensk starts broadcasting on 610 kHz with 20 kW. The station
is swiftly renamed to
Soldatensender
Siegfried and is moved to Mogilew for security reasons. In
Simferopol, the Krim capital,
Soldatensender
Paul
starts broadcasting on longwave on 24 May. Programmes are also
produced for the local Krim-Tatar population. On 2 October two
Soldatensender
start broadcasting:
Soldatensender
Kaukasus
broadcasts from Woroschilowsk on 610 kHz with programmes for the local
population. Due to the withdrawal of German troops, the station is
silenced three months later.
Soldatensender
Paula broadcasts from Armawir.
On 31 December the long wave station
Golos Naroda (Voice
of the People) starts broadcasting from Smolensk.
On 20 July
1943 the
Sender Freies Deutschland
starts broadcasting on 971 and 610 kHz and via shortwave. On 610 kHz
the station interferes with Soldatensender Siegfried from Smolensk. The
Germans try in
vain to jam the Soviet station with Sender Heinrich in
Mogilew.
On 5 October
1944
the Finnish freedom station starts broadcasting on medium wave via
Kaliningrad (Königsberg).
