Author: leonkaminsky

Based on a true storyWhen the first wave of pirated videotapes from the west reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was still illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it “Commando”, or “The Godfather”, or “Emmanuelle”, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe you’d get arrested, maybe you wouldn’t. If you were found out, in most cases that meant prison. … meant prison. You would still watch it – and couldn’t get enough of it.Being a shy, mild-mannered Jewish boy in a repressed and conservative society dominated by…