MN August 22 1991; Soviet Coup on the shortwave radio

Now this is something that won't ever be repeated. If you had a shortwave radio around August 1991 then it was probably tuned to Radio Moscow, but also other international broadcasters, because of an attempted coup. http://tiny.cc/tyfri Again this is an example of listener participation well before the web and mass use of email, as well as great inside stories from Vasily Strelnikov, a former presenter at Radio Moscow World Service. I love his story about how his "filling in the time" almost caused a diplomatic incident. He also explained how the news reading translation system worked, which solves another mystery from the Cold War era.