Posted on 10/27/2020 6:17:57 AM PDT by C19fan
TV show Dallas was the main reason behind the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, it has been claimed.
Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart said that former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev told him that the 1980s soap opera 'had more effect' in ending the Cold War than anything else.
Mr Stewart, 68, said the Gorbachev admitted an illicit broadcast of the US show in Russia had opened his people's eyes to Western life, and the Texas-based show 'brought down' the communist superpower.
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Would that the idiots being churned out by our schools would wake up and realize that the revolution they crave will lead to them trudging off from their drab government provided one room apartment to some windowless concrete factory they've been assigned to where they get to mindlessly turn some crank for 60 hours a week in order to earn some credits that might get them a roll of toilet paper and some gruel if they get to the store early enough before supplies run out.
Well done, sir.
Or Yeltsin’s legendary trip to a Californian supermarket.
...Coupled with the tiniest spark that lives deep inside even the most beaten-down slave...to want to be free?
Nah....it was seeing Charlene Tilton in a bikini.
Funny that an English paper has a reporter who cannot write fluent English. Does this guy know the Soviets actually invited Billy Joel to play in 1986? A nd someone hijacked a Soviet TV network to play a vhs of Dallas for half an hour. This is all jumbledno nonsense.
It’s also why Stalin sent a lot of his soldiers to the Gulag after WWII, they had a chance to see what life outside of the Soviet Union was like.
That is funny and probably not far off the mark.
The Bible says, “The truth will make you free” John 8:32.
Faith, truth, and freedom - they go together like peas and carrots and...whatever.
That is why the Left are liars because the truth will being down the dominance and coercion of the totalitarian government we now live under and will restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
Trying to give Larry Hagman the credit for something Reagan did.
In Poland during Communist times, they would show the most popular show in Poland, Kojack, on Sundays, at the time people most likely would go to Mass.
I had a relative who visited the USSR in the early 80s. She said wherever she went she was being begged for, “bubble gum and blue jeans.”
You dont get rich writing a lot pf checks!
VCRs are likely the real reason because people could easily exchange and see western videos in their own homes
Otherwise soviet media was fully state controlled
I remember stories about Westerners who traveled to the Soviet Union and people would accept payment in jeans and cigarettes.
We all called her 'Gorbachev'.
That's his contribution to Western society.
The Russians were not stupid. They knew all about the Western lifestyle, and they knew their leaders who got the best of everything from the West were living it themselves. They could live it too and travel to the West if they got high enough in Communist party and toed the party line.
I wanted ‘The Love Boat’ banned because whenever the guy was holding an alto saxophone you heard a tenor, and whenever the guy was holding a tenor saxophone you heard an alto.
"I knew it!"
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