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FWIW this publication is The New Yorker, not the New York Times, and the linked article didn't have any sort of paywall or preview feature when I clicked throug
by Full_Clark 3y ago
FWIW this publication is The New Yorker, not the New York Times, and the linked article didn't have any sort of paywall or preview feature when I clicked through.
I don't think trying again will bring you any joy, though, since none of the words samizdat, iron, curtain, soviet, nor USSR appear in the text.
- aebtebeten 3y agoThanks, my bad. I'm still paywalled, so I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Cassette_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#Cassette_culture where TIL tapes also played a role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- dylan604 3y agoThe fax machine also played a role in bringing down the Iron Curtain
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoTapes indeed played a role in the Iranian Revolution, but it was largely a negative one in making Khomeini popular enough that he could return from exile and immediately marginalize the broad coalition that had overthrown the shah. But after 1979, smuggled cassettes also allowed Western-leaning Iranians to maintain contact with the pop culture that they had been cut off from due to the new regime.