Campaign to bring the RFE Romanian archives to Romania.

"Radio Free Europe, Here is a campaign meant to generate support and raise funding for a 'Radio Free Europe Center of Research and Documentation' to be established in Bucharest. The campaign project was initiated by the 'Romanian Institute for Recent History' (IRIR) in cooperation with the former members of the RFE (Romanian Desk) team. ... The history of Romania in the second half of the last century and the tribulations of the Romanian society under the communist rule cannot be studied and understood without Radio Free Europe. RFE’s broadcasting archives (program scripts and tapes) are at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, California, thousands of miles away. Because of this, the archives are in fact out of reach for the people in Romania. The purpose of an 'RFE Center of Research and Documentation' would be to acquire and house a complete copy of the Hoover archives, and to make it freely available to the public here, in Romania, so that the accessible Romanian media content of 40 years roughly (1951-1990) would not consist only of the domestic communist propaganda material." Institutul Român de Istorie Recenta website. Posted: 10 Nov 2009 Permalink Print