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Chuck Norris vs Communism
Chuck Norris vs Comunism
2015 · Film · documentary · 80 min
Directed by Ilinca Calugareanu
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
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This is how people consume content in Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E
If you like this story, I recommend this documentary:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442080/ (Chuck Norris vs Communism)
On that topic, I can highly recommend the documentary “Chuck Norris vs. Communism”^[1] about censorship in Romania under Ceaușescu.
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442080/
When interested in the whole east bloc bootleg culture topic, don't miss out on the 2105 documentary film Chuck Norris vs. Communism who covers the organized structures of 80s Communist Romania.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/18/5422606/communist-romania-dubbed-vhs-tapes
There is a documentary called "Chuck Norris vs. Communism" on Netflix about this.