Knowing The Truth

 

Samizdat (самиздат or Self-Publishing) has been a practice used during both Soviet and modern-Russian times to get around the strict Government Censorship.

Ordinary Soviets (and now Russians) have always wanted to know the truth and have risked their lives for it.

Ribs (рёбра), also known as Music on Ribs (Музыка на рёбрах) - pictured - was when Soviets took used X-Rays from State Hospitals and used them to put banned Western Music (like Elvis, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, etc.) that was smuggled into the USSR by brave Men and Women.

Those Recordings were then sent all across the USSR and its Soviet Republics from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea and from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.

To give you an example: The Beatles’ Song: “Back in the U.S.S.R” came out in the US on November 22, 1968. By December 1, 1968 the song could be heard on these X-Rays from Riga to Vladivostok and from Leningrad to Yerevan.

We know that because of the Soviet Police Reports that showed people being arrested for these “Anti-Soviet Actions” and charged with being “American CIA Spies.”

The Beatles remain the most popular Western Band in Modern Russia.

Today, Ordinary Russians don’t use X-Rays to promote the West’s Freedoms within Russia. The format has changed over the years, but the belief in knowing the truth and having free will remains the same.

It is especially important with those Russians who oppose Putin’s Genocidal War in Ukraine.

Samizdat in all it forms from Soviet Times to Putin’s Russia remains a way for the ordinary person to learn the truth.