Historian Dean Vuletic on the Czechs, the Eurovision and Eastern Europe’s Intervision

How did Karel Gott become the only artist from a communist state to take
part in the Eurovision Song Contest? What was Czechoslovakia’s role in
the Eastern Bloc’s parallel Intervision? And why were rockers Kabát such
a bad fit for the Eurovision? Ahead of next weekend’s final of the
pan-European extravaganza these were some of the subjects I discussed with
Vienna-based historian Dean Vuletic, author of Postwar Europe and the
Eurovision Song Contest.