Radio Free Europe’s Polish Broadcasting Service on Millennial Celebrations of the Baptism of Poland Held in Exile in 1966
Radio Free Europe’s Polish Broadcasting Service on Millennial Celebrations of the Baptism of Poland Held in Exile in 1966

Author(s): Evelina Kristanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: Millennium of the Christianisation of Poland; Radio Free Europe: Radio Free Europe’s Polish Broadcasting Service; religious broadcasts; politics and media
Summary/Abstract: The study is the second part of the analysis of selected broadcasts by RFE’s Polish Broadcasting Service on the 1966 celebration of the Millennium of the Christianisation of Poland Held in Exile. The source material consists of programs available online on the Radio Liberty website and articles published in the monthly magazine On Air in 1966. The author shows the religious, political, formative, and integrative role of radio broadcasts vis-à-vis the Millennium Poloniae celebrations. The celebrations, which were commemorated internationally, drew the attention of the Western world to the situation of Poles under the rule of Władysław Gomułka. The radio station defended the authority of Primate Stefan Wyszyński against communist propaganda. The author uses the following methods: literary and critical analysis, as well as media and press content analysis, and case study.

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