Talk:Magnitizdat

The process of magnitizdat was less risky than publishing literature via samizdat, since any person in the USSR was permitted to own a private reel-to-reel tape recorder. Was this actually the case ? During the 1980's I remember it being claimed in various (mostly UK) newspaper/magazine articles that tape recording equipment was extremely scarce in the USSR (and the Eastern bloc in general) and were keenly sought items among the handful of Soviet citizens who got the opportunity to visit the West. How widespread was tape recorder ownership in the USSR and were there restrictions on ownership or were any supply difficulties down to the general scarcity of "consumer goods" which plagued the Eastern bloc ? 86.179.31.202 (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * In order to copy recordings one would have needed at least TWO machines. This was rare enough in the West until the introduction of "twin" cassette decks in the mid-1980's. How many Soviet citizens owned two tape recorders ? Also the article mentions reel-to-reel machines but what about cassettes I've seen cassette recorders of East German manufacture (they were fairly popular there) but did the USSR have them and when did they appear ?82.132.213.134 (talk) 16:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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