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Transmitter Station Number 5 was one of many secret, radio-jamming facilities throughout the USSR. Today, nearly 26 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its past employees, still living in their original residences, are trapped in a time warp 24/07/2017 - Thoma Sukhashvili
(Originally published by Chai-Khana.org )
Fifty kilometers north of Tbilisi lies a mysterious settlement without a name or place on an official map. Locals simply refer to it as Transmitter Station Number 5.
In the early 1950s, over 100 people were reportedly moved here secretly from all over the Soviet Union with the sole purpose of preventing radio broadcasts considered anti-Soviet from reaching the Caucasus. These included the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Liberty, Voice of Israel, Deutsche Welle, Vatican Radio, as well as those socialist outlets that were critical of the USSR, such as Albania's Radio Tirana and China's Radio Beijing.
Transmitter Station Number 5 was one of many secret, radio-jamming facilities throughout the USSR. Today, nearly 26 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its past employees, still living in their original residences, are trapped in a time warp; their role as stalwart "guardians" against enemy propaganda now a thing of the past.
Additional story at: https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Georgia/Georgia-s-Secret-Radio-Station-Jamming-for-the-USSR-180935
Thanks to Kim Elliott for his original Twitter post