Early one morning, in September 1982, hundreds of young Russians were waiting in a Moscow TV studio for an image of Southern California to appear on a giant screen. All of a sudden, there it was, live via satellite: a crowd of hundreds of thousands of sweltering Americans, blanketing the desert in front of a rock star-worthy stage and even bigger screens, backed by a ripple of mountains.
The Russians in the Gosteleradio studio started yelling, screaming, wavingâ??they were being streamed onto those 60-foot-tall California screens, and they wanted so much for the Americans to see them!â??and two Americans, who had traveled to the Soviet Union just days before to make this happen, grabbed the microphone and yelled:
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