>Is it really that fair to compare >Soviet TVs with Japanese? Russia >was
once a poor and barely >industrialized country. For all its >many faults -
and there were >many - Soviet planning did manage >to industrialize the
place to the >point where you'd even think of
>comparing a Soviet TV with a >Japanese one. Do people ever talk >about
Turkish or Indonesian TVs?
This is purely anecdotal, but until about 8 months ago I was using an old Brezhnev-era B&W TV, I think about 25-30 years old. Pretty clunky and you had to fiddle with the dials to get the sound to coincide with the video, but it worked fine, and lasted a generation before it burned out.
Of course, I have no idea what it would have cost at the time it was produced.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal