| Abstract [eng] |
The analysis of US radio broadcasts to the Soviet Lithuania reveal the type of policy that the United States implemented during the Cold War in terms of its relations with Lithuania by means of public diplomacy rather than traditional diplomacy. Studies of Western radio broadcasts are important not only in analysing the policy implemented with regard to Lithuania but also in revealing fundamental processes of the society’s development, differences of ideological indoctrination from those of other Soviet societies, the changing relationship of their members with the Soviet system, and also the position of the regime itself with regard to various threats. The analysis of the processes taking place in the Soviet Lithuanian society reveals that Western radio broadcasts produced for each state of the Baltic Bloc in their native languages motivated citizens’ passive resistance, distrust in the Soviet regime as well as led to questioning its legitimacy and achievements. The view that during the Cold War the USA sought to affect the inner development of the Soviet Lithuania’s society by means of radio broadcasts provides an opportunity to assess the policy of the non-recognition of the annexation of the Baltic States’ territory in a different light and to analyse political and socio-cultural processes in the Soviet Lithuania’s society from a new perspective. . |
