This is an x-ray of a broken rib cage spinning at 45 rotations per minute.
And there's a sound coming from those tiny grooves etched into the x-ray film.
How else would you listen to illegal music in Soviet Russia?
The many great things about the Soviet Union, but in terms of what you could listen to watch read, etc, it was subject to a censor, so there was no freedom in that sense at all.
That's Steven Coates of the Bureau of Lost Culture, based in London.
Stephen studies a myriad and ingenious ways people skirted the Soviet Union's draconian government censors.
The music was seen as both anti-intellectual and also but it might encourage on welcome behavior.
As a result, this subversive music was banned, but it didn't stop the people of Soviet Russia from getting their hands on it.
We had these machines where you could go into a booth and people would make souvenir recordings of their voice.
But in the evening when the shop was closed, this guy was using his recording machine to copy forbidden easy to make what we call bootlegs, and he was giving him to friends or selling them.
