Radio Plzeň: The voice that changed history 80 years ago

Name: Radio Plzeň: The voice that changed history 80 years ago
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T11:20:33+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: Eighty years ago, on May 5, 1945, the first words of freedom rang out over the airwaves in Plzeň. Resistance fighters captured a German transmitter and launched a revolutionary broadcast, laying the foundation for what would become local radio. No Czechoslovak radio station began broadcasting at the end of World War II as dramatically as

Photo: Český rozhlas Plzeň

Eighty years ago, on May 5, 1945, the first words of freedom rang out over the airwaves in Plzeň. Resistance fighters captured a German transmitter and launched a revolutionary broadcast, laying the foundation for what would become local radio.

No Czechoslovak radio station began broadcasting at the end of World War II as dramatically as Plzeň did.

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