This article contributes to the historiography of two separate topics that became intertwined in the final decade of the Cold War: wildlife protection activism and Cold War broadcasting. The article explains how the activities of Radio Free Europe (RFE), a U.S.-funded radio station based in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that transmitted shortwave broadcasts to five Soviet-bloc countries, throw into sharp relief the fine line between the advantages of radio technologies and their pitfalls. The article focuses on a protracted conflict between RFE and the FRG's bird protection activists in the 1980s and early 1990s. Some U.S. officials viewed the fight over the station's superior “killer technologies” as reflecting anti-Americanism during Ronald Reagan's presidency, but West German officials saw it more as an outgrowth of the species protection movement that had recently become a part of the FRG's political mainstream. The article highlights the complex social and international political dimensions of the dispute.

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RFE/RL 广播和西德社会：夹在自然保护行动主义和反美主义之间

本文为冷战最后十年交织在一起的两个独立主题的历史编纂做出了贡献：野生动物保护行动主义和冷战广播。这篇文章解释了自由欧洲电台 (RFE) 的活动，该电台是一家设在德意志联邦共和国 (FRG) 的美国资助的广播电台，向五个苏联集团国家发送短波广播，如何使两者之间的细线变得清晰起来。无线电技术的优点及其缺陷。这篇文章的重点是 1980 年代和 1990 年代初期 RFE 与 FRG 的鸟类保护活动家之间旷日持久的冲突。一些美国官员认为，为该站优越的“杀手级技术”而展开的斗争反映了罗纳德·里根 (Ronald Reagan) 总统任期内的反美主义，但西德官员更多地将其视为物种保护运动的产物，该运动最近已成为 FRG 政治主流的一部分。文章强调了争端复杂的社会和国际政治层面。