It's kind of funny to read that because I sometimes browse European MWDX write-ups on the web. DX is a bit of an addicting hobby, not dissimilar to fishing or hunting in a way. It's fun to read about someone in Finland picking up an AM commercial broadcast from Brazil. You can start thinking about watts-per-km and pretty soon you have your own record book or spreadsheet going.

https://www.wbaa.org/general-news/2022-04-26/finnish-am-radi...

Oh they are there, but its not something most young (<40) would ever listen to. Classical music, religious ones, some official state-sponsored ones.

Behind iron curtain people only had the state ones, so some old folks are often still used to have it tuned and never bothered to change.