Here’s something cool to watch: the first ever Soviet science fiction movie, Aelita: Queen of Mars, directed by Yakov Protozoan from 1924. Read more…
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Watch The First Soviet Science Fiction Film, Aelita: Queen Of Mars
In the 1980s Irina Margareta Nistor worked as a translator of TV programs in Romania under the Communist regime. But in her spare time she secretly dubbed over 3, 000 banned movie titles, all VHS tapes smuggled in from the West. These tapes quickly spread throughout Romania. Nobody knew Nistor’s name. But everybody knew her voice. Read more…
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This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War
The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are…less so. And falling squarely in that latter category is the ancient .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union . It’s not exactly well maintained, or well policed, which is why more and more online criminals are using it as a hideout. Read more…
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Tons of Hackers Are Hanging Out in Old Soviet Cyberspace