> Tangentially, neither did the tradition of dubbing foreign films by just having a single guy read every character's lines without even removing the original a

> Tangentially, neither did the tradition of dubbing foreign films by just having a single guy read every character's lines without even removing the original audio track, but just trying to talk louder than the actors' original audio. There's another reason for that I think. The first movies pirated to USSR were dubbed in "underground" conditions by enthusiasts (and their translations were in many cases more exact, closer to the original than "official" ones made later). Some people get used to that style and really prefer a single voice, but proper translation with much of an original sound, intonations to a hollow "official" "professional" dubs.