My friends who lived in East Germany prior to the wall coming down told me that they were threatened not to listen to Western radio stations.
One told me how they would hide in fear just to listen to the radio. The same person told me that the most painful thing was when the wall came down all the lies that they were a world power were unveiled. The governments ego identity was destroyed.
No kidding.
One of the curious things about East Germany, as it existed....is that in roughly 98-percent of the country...you could get radio waves from the west. So there’s this one section of old East Germany, near Dresden...where the geography circumstances prevented any radio reception from West Germany. Those who lived in that particular valley....weren’t westernized in any form prior to the wall coming down.