No Sex in the USSR

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1986 in an effort to promote 'Glasnost' or openness, Soviet women were linked up with American women via satellite for a TV debate. But the dialogue would be remembered above all for the moment when a Russian woman stated "We have no sex in the USSR". Dina Newman has tracked down the woman who blurted that out, and Vladimir Posner the talk show host in the studio at the time.

Photo: Soviet women in the Leningrad TV studio, with Vladimir Posner standing in the background. Courtesy of Ludmilla Ivanova.

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1:06.3	Hello, you're listening to the Witness Podcast, History as told by the People
1:09.8	who were there with me, Dina Newman. In the late 1980s the Soviet Union began its policy of
1:16.1	pyristroika and openness and made the first attempts to connect citizens from the
1:20.9	USSR and the USA. In June 1986 a video link between
1:26.4	Soviet and American women was broadcast in both countries. It was recorded in
1:31.5	two TV studios, one in Leningrad, one in Boston, connected via a satellite.
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