Re: [HCDX] USSR in 1920s and 1930s did not jam -- USA politically isapproaching USSR after WWII, jamming is not geopolitiacally impossible...

["David E. Crawford" <DavidECrawford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "mhev" <mhev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HCDX] USSR in 1920s and 1930s did not jam -- USA politically isapproaching USSR after WWII, jamming is not geopolitiacally impossible...

>USSR in 1920s and 1930s did not jam; yet the USSR became the most
>significant jammer for nearly 50 years.

The tsar didn't jam during the 1880s either.  During both periods, there was no significant amount of international broadcasting to the Russian Federation.

>The USA politically is approaching USSR after WWII, so jamming is not
>geopolitiacally impossible...

Not quite yet;  Novaya Stalin-ochka isn't going to make her run for the presidency until 2004.  And exactly what is it that the US would jam now?

>I am not against jamming, per se -- but its usefulness is made possible by a
>very narrow set of conditions.

Indeed.  We wouldn't want the peasants and workers hearing things that aren't useful, would we?

dc

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