In 1986, TV presenter Vladimir Pozner and Phil Donahue organized one of the first Soviet-American television bridges, which was directed by Vladimir Mukusev. During the conversation, the American participant of the space bridge asked the questionIn the USSR, there is no sex "- a winged phrase, the source of which was the statement of one of the Soviet participants of the space bridge Leningrad-Boston.We have television advertising everything revolves around sex. Do you have such TV commercials? "Soviet participant Lyudmila Ivanova (at that time - administrator of the hotel "Leningrad" and a representative of the public organization "Committee of Soviet Women") replied:"Well, we have sex ... (laughs) we do not have sex, and we are absolutely against it! "After that, the audience laughed, and one of the Soviet participants clarified:"We have sex, we do not have advertising! " In use came a distorted and torn from the context part of the phrase: "In the USSR there is no sex."But, in fact, sex has certainly been in the Soviet Union and varied.
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