Here’s the real reason why the US sanctioned RT

Washington’s extreme reaction is due to panic at the fact that it’s losing its monopoly on global media In late 1986 Yegor Ligachev, the secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, and Viktor Chebrikov, then-head of the KGB, proposed that the country end the practice of jamming foreign radio stations. ‘Enemy voices’ was the popular term used at the time to describe these broadcasts from abroad. Of course, the two prominent officials were not imbued with bourgeois ideas when seeking...