Of all the fascinating things that I’ve seen, there was a Moscow TV station rebroadcasting CNN during the Gulf War. My memory is hazy, and I accepted it as-is

Of all the fascinating things that I’ve seen, there was a Moscow TV station rebroadcasting CNN during the Gulf War. My memory is hazy, and I accepted it as-is at the time, but the idea that American news could be watched live shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union seems entirely wild.