Editing Intervision Song Contest (section)

{{short description|International song competition}}
{{Other uses|Intervision (disambiguation)}}
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* [[Prague]] (1965)
* [[Bratislava]] (1966–1967)
* [[Karlovy Vary]] (1968)
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| first_aired          = {{Start date|1965|06|12|df=y}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1968|06|22|df=y}}<ref name="transformations.univie.ac.at">{{cite web |last1=Vuletic |first1=Dean |title=Dr. Dean Vuletic: Intervision: Popular Music and Politics in Eastern Europe |url=https://transformations.univie.ac.at/en/members/dean-vuletic/ |website=Universitat Wien |access-date=1 May 2023 |archive-date=1 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501080040/https://transformations.univie.ac.at/en/members/dean-vuletic/ }}</ref>
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The '''Intervision Song Contest''' (ISC) was an international [[Music competition|song competition]] organised by the [[International Radio and Television Organisation]] (OIRT) between 1965 and 1980, and broadcast live to national broadcasters via the [[International Radio and Television Organisation#Intervision|Intervision network]]. The contest took place in several locations in [[Czechoslovakia]], and in the [[Forest Opera]] in [[Sopot]], Poland. It was the [[Eastern Bloc]] equivalent to the [[Eurovision Song Contest]].

The ISC was organised from 1965 to 1968 and again from 1977 to 1980.<ref name="transformations.univie.ac.at">{{cite web |last1=Vuletic |first1=Dean |title=Dr. Dean Vuletic: Intervision: Popular Music and Politics in Eastern Europe |url=https://transformations.univie.ac.at/en/members/dean-vuletic/ |website=Universitat Wien |access-date=1 May 2023 |archive-date=1 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501080040/https://transformations.univie.ac.at/en/members/dean-vuletic/ }}</ref><ref name="Postwar Europe">{{cite book |last1=Vuletic |first1=Dean |title=Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest |date=25 July 2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-10739-7 <!--|access-date=1 May 2023-->}}</ref><ref name="Vuletic 2021 pp. 141–156">{{cite book | last=Vuletic | first=Dean | title=Music and Democracy | chapter=The Intervision Song Contest: Popular Music and Political Liberalization in the Eastern Bloc | publisher=mdwPress / transcript Verlag | publication-place=Vienna, Austria / Bielefeld, Germany | date=2021-11-23 | isbn=978-3-8376-5657-2 | doi=10.14361/9783839456576-006 | pages=141–156}}</ref> Since 1977, it replaced the [[Sopot International Song Festival]] (Sopot ISF) that had been held in Sopot since 1961. In 1981 the ISC/Sopot ISF was cancelled because of the rise of the independent trade union movement, [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]], which was judged by other Eastern bloc communist governments to be "counter-revolutionary".

In 2008, an [[Intervision Song Contest 2008|unrelated contest with the same name]] took place, as an attempt to revival, though subsequent editions planned in both 2014 and 2015 did not materialise.<ref>{{Cite news|url= http://eurovoix.com/2014/09/01/intervision-2014-contest-is-cancelled|title=Intervision: 2014 Contest Is Cancelled|last=Granger|first=Anthony|date=1 September 2014|website=Eurovoix|access-date= 1 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Granger|first1=Anthony|title=Intervision: Contest Moved To Autumn 2015|url=http://eurovoix.com/2015/03/14/intervision-contest-moved-to-autumn-2015/|website=Eurovoix.com|date=14 March 2015 |access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref> After the {{esccnty|Russia|t=Russian broadcasters}} withdrew from the [[European Broadcasting Union]] upon [[Eurovision Song Contest 2022#Exclusion of Russia|being excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest 2022]], another revival was announced by the [[Ministry of Culture (Russia)|Russian Ministry of Culture]] in 2023, with Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] signing a decree for it to be held in Moscow later [[Intervision Song Contest 2025|in 2025]].<ref name="2023revival">{{Cite web |url=https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/11/17/v-rossii-vozrodyat-sovetskii-festival-vmesto-evrovideniya-a113523 |title=В России возродят советский фестиваль песен вместо "Евровидения" |language=ru-RU |date=2023-11-17 |access-date=2023-11-17 |publisher=[[The Moscow Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/back-ussr-putin-revives-soviet-era-eurovision-with-new-allies-2025-02-04/ | title=Back in the USSR: Putin revives Soviet-era 'Eurovision' with new allies | work=Reuters | date=4 February 2025 | last1=Faulconbridge | first1=Guy | last2=Faulconbridge | first2=Guy }}</ref>