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This week Vladimir Putin signed a decree reviving the Intervision Song Contest, once the eastern bloc rival to Eurovision. In 2012 an ex-director of Intervision told me the show could be long. Very long. "One Czechoslovakian girl sang on stage 45 minutes. In the end she got tired and walked off."
The Cold War rival to Eurovision
When nestled behind the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union could not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest, so it set up a rival competition - and called it Intervision.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This week Vladimir Putin signed a decree reviving the Intervision Song Contest, once the eastern bloc rival to Eurovision. In 2012 an ex-director of Intervision told me the show could be long. Very long. "One Czechoslovakian girl sang on stage 45 minutes. In the end she got tired and walked off."