Researching the history of radio in the 30s and 40s, we found two hints on far-reaching incidents: the "First Partisan Radio Station" in Yugoslavia (prva partizanska radio stanica), and the "Tesla Time Machine" (teslin vremeplov). The "First Partisan Radio Station" was set up in the Republic of Užice (Ужичка република, Užička Republika), the first temporarily liberated territory in World War II Europe in 1941. This "First Partisan Radio Station" in former Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia is the starting point to deal with the interrelation between the liberated physical and electronic space.
The second incident we found when browsing through recently declassified CIA archives. An evidence of testing the "Tesla Time Machine" (teslin vremeplov). The machine makes it possible to travel back in history via accelerating the zero point energy and thus passing radio waves. Even the technical assembly was quite advanced then, with our contemporary skills and possibilities, it was feasible to set up a replica and rediscover radio programs, e.g. broadcasted for partisans.
From the beginning of WW II, radio was a tool for borderless communication and propaganda. With its shortwave stations in Zeesen, Germany established a propaganda machine to reach Germans and others all over the world, and to influence foreign press and media. Via the radio stations "German Freedom Station" and "Radio Liberty" British and French governments broadcasted anti-Nazi radio campaigns. Lots of programs were jammed, that means made inaudible or difficult to hear, by mechanical Morse code, another voice, sirens or other sounds on or near the original wavelength.
During the war, wireless communication was the medium for information and communication. In Yugoslavia, Partisans realized quite swiftly that to organize guerilla fighting in mountains and impassable areas, it is necessary to employ radio technology. Most of the used devices were captured from the enemy. In using wireless communication, there was always a danger that Germans could gain information by wiretapping. Either breaking the codes or the simple lack of radio devices denied several partisan actions. In Nazi occupied Slovenia for instance, the underground station "Radio Kričač" started in1942 in Ljubljana. Between 1941 and 1944, the communist party of Yugoslavia had direct radio communication with the Comintern in Moscow by radio stations in Zagreb and in Belgrade. Tito could speak to his partisans via a radio station in Ufa, Soviet Union, called "Free Yugoslavia". Decisions by the Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), were broadcasted via radio. |
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