THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August
Ridiculous History
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Sergey Gorbachev's Message From Outer Space
"I'd rewrite articles in very simple English. They would connect, it's like my own system," he says. "They called it RITA, which is my name in Russian." He was going to do something no serving cosmonaut had done before: make a political statement. And so he wrote a message to send out over the Ham Radio Waves, a message from outer space.
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