From April 1949 the Soviet authorities expended "vast amounts of money and technical expertise" on jamming foreign broadcasts,[REF] and "a significant part of the USSR's entire radio broadcasting system was devoted to blocking transmissions from abroad."[REF]
The Russian dissident and exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn insisted the BBC should not endow the Kremlin with a sense of legitimacy,[REF] and on a visit to the BBC in 1976 refused to meet Goldberg [REF].