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Ilya אש Ash

Sublime story about soviet black market vinyl from painter Vasya Horst:

"My granddad's most favourite-cherished record collecting story. 1960s, GUM [huge department store on Red Square], grandfather buys Pyotr Leshchenko's "on the ribs" record (improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray films) recording from illegal private distributor. The label on the disc reads - Alexandrov Ensemble [for conspiracy]. ...

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Ilya אש Ash

"He comes home, puts the disc onto the turntable. Silence. Fuck, they srewed him over! Finally, at the end of the record, a male baritone announces: "You want to listen to Leshchenko, but the fuck you will!" Grandpa threw the record away, which he regretted all his life".

(facebook.com/alisahorst/posts/)

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