On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Chris Doss wrote:
> A friend of mine was a Komsomol leader in the early 80s. His mother, who
> was one of the SU's biggest geologists, picked him up of Playboy at one
> of her overseas conferences. He was terrified smuggling it back to his
> apartment in a bag, afraid the cops would stop him. Getting caught with
> it would have seriously damaged a Komsomol leader's reputation.
>
> Punishment for makinh pornography in the USSR was 3 years
So did it have a short-lived cachet among the educated when the USSR fell and it became legal, like it did in Spain? Where it became a symbol of new license and free expression?
Michael