Prufrock: A History of Soviet Central Television, the End of Performing Elephants, and More - The Weekly Standard (blog)

Prufrock: A History of Soviet Central Television, the End of Performing Elephants, and More The Weekly Standard (blog) A fascinating history of Soviet Central Television: "Russia's first attempt at the gameshow genre, Evening of Merry Questions (Vecher veselykh voprosov) was broadcast in May 1957. It was hoped that putting 'unvarnished, unmediated ordinary people and ...