Harpo Marx in the USSR (1933)

In the meantime, and for reasons not entirely clear, the US government despatched ‘Harpo Marx’ to the newly created US embassy in Moscow as a ‘good will ambassador’ in 1933! One bizare explanation is that the US naively thought that as he possessed the family name ‘Marx’, he would be more acceptable to the Soviet Authorities! The following video is taken from the Soviet newsreel recording this event. 

Soviet Union: UVB-76 Radio Station (станция УВБ 76 Русское радио)

My own theory is that UVB-76 has multiple purposes, one of which was designed by the advanced Soviets scientists to broadcast a subliminal message world-wide, as part of a concerted technological process to undermine the psychological adherence to capitalism, and that all those capitalists who currently (and regularly) listen to it then and now, are slowly experiencing the eradication of the ‘inverted’ mind-set that underlies (and justifies) all bourgeois corruption and greed.

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