Soviet Hi Fi

not really Soviet but Soviet state my Intervox Mark 10 Model BHP 1062 made in Hungary

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I've run across a couple of LPs produced in the old Soviet Bloc that sound very nice indeed.
 
The Eastern Block would be the Soviet Union, without it you just have Russia.

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Soviet Hi-Fi equipment, Strong like Tractor, Sounds like Bull...I have a Diora "Calypso" radio made in Poland, it is a knock-off of the German wooden table-model sets of the 1950s-'60s...Surprisingly, it even has the 88-108 MC FM band...Not a very good performer, & the finish is pretty laughable compared to the Grundigs, Emuds, SABAS, etc it was supposed to compete with. I got it mainly because I didn't have a Combloc radio of any kind, I never saw one like it before or since.
 
The Eastern Block would be the Soviet Union, without it you just have Russia.

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There were EB states that weren't part of the Soviet Union - Poland, Yugoslavia, etc.
 
As one who has a very under used Master's Degree in History, Poland and the other countries of the old Warsaw Pact (i.e. Eastern Bloc) were never members of the Soviet Union but rather under the economic and political dominance of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from about 1945-1990. By such logic Eastern Germany would have been considered a part of the Soviet Union. Under its influence and perhaps a client of the USSR yes but never officially a Soviet Republic by a long shot. The USSR consisted of various "Soviet Republics " within certain geographic areas of the Russian part of the European Continent and Asia (all of the Islamic republics such as Tashkent, the various "Stans", and other Slavic European regions like Ukraine and Georgia, etc.). Do not confuse that entity with the Warsaw Pact.
 
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Poland certainly was....... according to Wikipedia, and Yugoslavia was until 1948.

If you search for "Soviet Union" on Wikipedia, you get the USSR page - which lists these countries as the constituent parts:
Armenian SSR
Azerbaijan SSR
Byelorussian SSR
Estonian SSR
Georgian SSR
Kazakh SSR
Kirghiz SSR
Latvian SSR
Lithuanian SSR
Moldavian SSR
Russian SFSR
Tajik SSR
Turkmen SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Uzbek SSR

Wikipedia also has this to say about Poland's government in the Soviet era: "...emerging several years later as the socialist People's Republic of Poland within the Eastern Bloc, under strong Soviet influence"

Back to the discussion of Soviet Hi-Fi gear...

One last aside: icenine, I love the Mr. Mind avatar. :thmbsp:
 
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