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This analytical note, produced by Sergei Bondarev / Kulturell Fredsstrategi Bondarev Nordic Lab (BID 3560780-6), IRIS Newsletter contributor (European Audiovisual Observatory / Council of Europe), EACEA registered expert evaluator, traces six historical mechanisms that produced Europe’s entertainment monitoring gap: the dismantling of Cold War cultural intelligence infrastructure (USIA abolished 1999); the normative legacy of the Hollywood blacklist (HUAC, 1947–1960); cultural accommodation practices of Finlandisation (with post-2022 NATO accession demonstrating domestic recognition of the mechanism); the UNESCO cultural exception doctrine (1993/2005); the structural exclusion of transparent state entertainment from the EEAS FIMI definitional framework (the Ellul problem: integration propaganda operates through legitimate, entertaining channels and is more durable than agitation propaganda, yet FIMI’s deception requirement excludes it by design); and the service-level architecture of the AVMSD, which monitors services but not the provenance or production chains of content circulating on those services.The note argues that no single mechanism would have produced the blind spot alone — their layered accumulation across seven decades did. The gap was constructed by peace-dividend budget decisions, constitutional trauma, diplomatic accommodation, trade doctrine, definitional architecture, and regulatory design. The companion Q1 2026 Monitoring Report (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19253748) demonstrates that the gap is operationally closable; this note explains why no one has closed it yet.40 footnotes. 23 unique external sources including Ellul (1965), Cull (2012), Kärjä/NORDICOM (2015), DISARM Foundation, Freedom House, CSIS, and primary EU regulatory documents. Deposit 3 of 3. Companion deposits: Q1 2026 Monitoring Report (public, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19253748) and cross-border intermediary infrastructure map (restricted, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19253817).