MIT Press Reader
Feb 7, 2022 - 13 min
Perhaps not surprisingly, they didn't work as planned. In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of very unusual broadcasts. Wladimir Velminski tells us the fascinating story behind Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky's six infamous 'healing' transmissions, a peculiar effort to reignite communism in the last days of the Soviet Union.