STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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- 2 - measures taken by firms to attract new workers, further rationalization measures in the defence industry, and ongoing and new employment measures for the old world, despite the difficulties currently encountered by Sad cd, are being started or implemented in a meaningful way. In the last few days, rumors spread by whisper propaganda on the basis of the hostile radio (war is taking place in Turkey, the establishment of new fronts by the enemy powers, new offensive enterprises of the Soviets, revolution in the Old Kingdom, etc.) again find stronger appeal and, more recently, nurtured the hope of a soon re-establishment of Czecho-Slovakia. Special attention is paid to radio news from London and Moscow, according to which, for the first time on the eastern front on the side of the Soviets, the "Checho-Slovak foreign army" under the leadership of the Supreme Swoboda could lead a devastating blow against a tank unit of the Waf- fen-jj, so that this great success in the Soviet army report could be expressly praised and a large number of congratulations telegrams changed. In particular, the fight with the weapon and the Bluj bet for the new Checho-Slo-LmitByneslrlegdoman wakei is highlighted and how l918 artificially creates a hero myth. In order to achieve this foreign agitation beyond the previous interfering measures - in the Protectorate z.zetyede sturgeon stations, the mad Miglntest indem the middle-range-rangevenerrsehey to remove the ground, without at the same time affecting the own radio propaganda, on 10 March a decree -Samieg about the shortwave reception was issued by the Reichsprotektor. The Regulation provides that for all radio-broadcasting equipment in the Protectorate with a short-wave component: