14m •
2016
Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.
1905•
4.8
2018•
9.0
2020•
0
2020•
0
2024•
0
1979•
5.7
2013•
7.1
1970•
7.5
1970•
0
2017•
0
2004•
0
2016•
0
1974•
5.3
2024•
10.0
2011•
0
2010•
3.8
1975•
5.7
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