Esenta propagandei totalitare este sa plasmuiasca o hiper-realitate, diferita de aceea a faptelor verificabile. Acum 25 de ani, cand a avut loc catastrofa nucleara de la Cernobâl, presa scrisa si vorbita a regimurilor comuniste, inclusiv a celui de la Bucuresti, au negat realitatea, au amanat cat s-a putut anuntarea cataclismului.
Radio Europa Libera a fost sursa de informatii, obiectiva si tocmai de aceea credibila, in acel moment de maxima ingrijorare si maxima primejdie. La fel, in noaptea cutremurului din martie 1977, romanii au aflat de la Europa Libera ce se intampla in tara lor. Cand in tara menestrelul comunismului dinastic, Adrian Paunescu, organiza orgiile agitatorice ale “Cenaclului Flacara al Tineretului Revolutionar”, la Europa Libera Cornel Chiriac propunea o tabla de valori alternativa pentru tinerii insetati de muzica rock si folk.
Cand Sergiu Andon, actualul aghiotant al lui Dan Voiculescu, ridica in slavi, in paginile “Scanteii”, organul oficial al CC al PCR, ceea ce regimul numea “legalitatea socialista”, Emil Georgescu spulbera in chip usturator aceasta fictiune. Sa ne miram ca regimul si-a trimis ucigasii cu simbrie spre a-l lichida? Sa ne miram de atacurile impotriva unor Monica Lovinescu, Virgil Ierunca si Paul Goma la Paris? Sa ne miram de campaniile odioase de compromitere prin calomnii ordinare a redactorilor si colaboratorilor acestui post de radio? Sa ne miram ca unele din aceste campanii continua pana in ziua de azi?
Situatia economica, pictata in culori trandafirii de scribii propagandei, era analizata cu competenta in editorialele d-lui Serban Orescu. Cea politica, in editorialele profesorului Vlad Georgescu, mai devreme cele ale lui Noel Bernard. Se stabilea un canon al acuratetii, onestitatii si rigorii. Starea culturii tot mai vasalizata, tot mai agresata de sistem era analizata de Monica Lovinescu, Virgil Ierunca, Gelu Ionescu. A fi mentionat pozitiv la Europa Libera insemna un cerficat de onorabilitate.
Abuzurile Securitatii erau prezentate in cumplita si ubicua lor realitate. De aici si obsesia acestei insitutii criminale de a penetra si infiltra postul de radio. Mitologiile dominante despre istoria PCR erau demistificate. De la Washington veneau comentariile politice, sobre si aplicate, ale lui Nestor Ratesh, reportajele lui Constantin Alexandroaie, reflectiile unor distinsi intelectuali precum Matei Calinescu si Virgil Nemoianu. De la New York au transmis ani de zile jurnalisti respectati precum Liviu Floda si Justin Liuba. Printre colaboratori, tin sa-l amintesc pe regretatul Cornel Dumitrescu, ani de zile redactor, impreuna cu Dan Costescu si Liviu Cangeopol, al saptamanalului “Lumea Libera Romaneasca”.
Fara Radio Europa Libera, cetatenii Romaniei s-ar fi sufocat intr-o stare de autarhie spirituala, de inanitie informationala de tot mai devastator marasm moral. In timp ce presa oficiala trambita “valorile eticii si echitatii socialiste”, Radio Europa Libera rostea adevarul despre un sistem totalitar intemeiat pe duplicitate, amnezie si manipulare.
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Miercuri, 27 aprilie 2011, ora 11.00, a avut loc la sediul Institutului de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului si Memoria Exilului Romanesc, o dubla lansare de carte (Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents, CEU Press, 2010; Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond, Stanford University Press, 2010), cu participarea editorului/ autorului, dl. A. Ross Johnson, fostul director al postului de radio Europa Libera, research fellow & adviser to the RFE/RL Archive Project at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Lansarea de carte a fost urmata de o masa rotunda, moderata de Damiana Oţoiu, director al Departamentului exil si minoritati, IICCMER, la care au participat: dl. A. Ross Johnson, Hoover Institution; dl. Mihnea Berindei, cercetator CNRS si membru al Consiliului stiintific al IICCMER; dl. Dorin Dobrincu, director al Arhivelor Nationale ale Romaniei si dl. Stephen Ruken, secretar II al Ambasadei SUA din Bucuresti.
A Message from Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu, President of the Scientific Council, IICCMER
Radio Free Europe: The Voice of Hope, Dignity, and Truth
Let me first congratulate the participants to this exceptionally significant event. In times of moral disarray, social oppression, political crisis, and continuous aggression against the autonomy of the mind, Radio Free Europe was indeed “ziarul vorbit al românilor de pretutindeni” (the spoken newspaper of Romanians everywhere). For millions of Romanians, it was the voice of hope, dignity, and truth. After 1989, it remained a model of objectivity, fair-mindedness, and genuine journalism.
I grew up listening to Radio Free Europe. In a Bucharest pervaded by official lies, with newspapers dominated by sycophantic poems and hagiographic articles celebrating the “victories of socialism” and the “triumphant march of Marxism-Leninism”, not to speak of the infinite genius of the general secretary (first Gheorghiu-Dej, then Ceauşescu), Radio FreeEuropewas indeed the source of our refusal to despair. I started listening to RFE haphazardly, “zapping” on our family’s radio receiver (an antiquated East German piece) and discovering the “forbidden fruits”: RFE, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, RadioVatican, BBC. I even listened to Ratio Tirana denouncing the Khrushchevite “traitors and renegades.”
Thanks to RFE—by far the most influential of all Western broadcasting toRomania—I learned a lot about the system. I made a habit of listening to director Noel Bernard’s superbly informed and remarkably balanced editorials. His extraordinary voice, penetrating and subtle, made the comments doubly effective. The rigor of the interpretation was complemented by the sobriety of his tone. To the prevailing legends about the continuous successes of Romania’s socialist strategy, Bernard opposed a lucid vision which emphasized the rise of anti-dogmatic forces within world communism. For him, communist tyranny was not irreversible. He insisted on the benefits of pluralism, a concept execrated by Romanian party hacks. Radio Free Europe under Noel Bernard and later under Vlad Georgescu proposed an alphabet of dignity and lucidity. Mention should be made of the directorship ensured in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the distinguished political scientist, Professor Ghiţă Ionescu, the author, among other seminal works, of that monument of insightful scholarship, the pioneering volume “Communism in Romania” (Oxford University Press, 1964).
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