on 30 october 1930, from an improvised studio in tiraspol, started broadcasting in romanian language a soviet radio of 4 kw whose main purpose was the anti-romanian propaganda to bessarabia between prut and dniester. in the context in which a new radio mast, m. gorky, built in 1936 in tiraspol, allowed a greater coverage of the territory of moldova, the romanian state broadcaster started in 1937 to build radio basarabia, to counter soviet propaganda.