Het station was (ook) enorm populair in Polen.
"It’s hard to imagine a time when half of Europe was cut off from popular culture, and music-loving teenagers were starved of rock and pop. But that’s exactly how life was for youngsters growing up behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
The excitement of hearing the chatter of distant DJs and the exhilarating new musical sounds coming from the UK and America was even more keenly felt in the East, where the communists kept tight control.
During this time, Radio Luxembourg ‘the fabulous Two-O-Eight’ filled the airwaves with energetic rock and pop music.
While other stations such as Radio Free Europe and Voice of America were jammed by the communist authorities, Radio Luxembourg’s signal survived. Its mix of DJ chat, jingles and music may have been apolitical, causing no obvious threat, but its youthful exuberance did encourage an air of change. It was the sound of freedom."
Over Polen:
"In Poland, for example, Radio Luxembourg played an important role in the youth culture of those living under communism.
Conrad Bruch, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, was struck by this when he began working in Warsaw, the Polish capital: “ Radio Luxembourg was incredibly popular with young people in Poland during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. It was a real social phenomenon.
Radio Luxembourg became an opening to the free world a bridge towards the alternative youth cultures of the West,” Bruch recalls."
Meer over The Sound Of Freedom (Behind The Iron Curtain) vanaf pagina 28.
https://www.rtlgroup.com/alwaysclosetotheaudience/RTLGroup_alwaysglosetotheaudience.pdf