Fact
According to David Remnick, who wrote the book "Lenin's Tomb,"
"The leading cause of house fires in the Soviet Union was television sets that exploded spontanously."
I'm glad to live in the United S of A, where we don't have to deal with Russian Televisions. All of our TV's come from Japan.
Hmm... Sounds a little too close to Russia to be comfortable....
Oh wait, I don't own a TV!
"The leading cause of house fires in the Soviet Union was television sets that exploded spontanously."
I'm glad to live in the United S of A, where we don't have to deal with Russian Televisions. All of our TV's come from Japan.
Hmm... Sounds a little too close to Russia to be comfortable....
Oh wait, I don't own a TV!
posted by The Village Idiot at 3/13/2005 10:13:00 PM
1 Squibs:
"I have a friend who just got back from the Soviet Union, and told me the people there are hungry for information about the West. He was asked about many things, but I will give you two examples that are very revealing about life in the Soviet Union. The first question he was asked was if we had exploding television sets. You see, they have a problem with the picture tubes on color television sets, and many are exploding. They assumed we must be having problems with them too. The other question he was asked often was why the CIA had killed Samantha Smith, the little girl who visited the Soviet Union a few years ago; their propaganda is very effective.
-- Victor Belenko, MiG-25 fighter pilot who defected in 1976
"Defense Electronics", Vol 20, No. 6, pg. 100
Also, LCDs can explode!
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