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"In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film."
Wow! How'd they do that??
"...enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR."
If I may indulge my pun-ny self: how hip!!"In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play... more
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sajh
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Many East Germans disappeared trying to cross to the West over Bulgaria's southern border. This is the story of some who made it, and some who didn't.Many East Germans disappeared trying to cross to the West over Bulgaria's... more
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a real license to kill found in orders for East German border police - in dealing with defectors. Wow...a real license to kill found in orders for East German border police - in dealing with... more
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xuan
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