If you had asked me out-of-the-blue, I might not have been able to answer definitively. But, thanks to Anne Applebaum at slate.com, I know. Applebaum writes: "Radio Free Europe—the Cold War news service that was, for decades, the only source of independent information in Eastern Europe—does exist. In fact, it's as important as it ever was, at least in the 21 countries and 28 languages in which it is still often the only source of independent information..."

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