{"id":12186,"date":"2016-01-04T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2016-01-04T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:46:45","slug":"independent-lens-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12186","title":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENT LENS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

MONDAY, JANUARY 4 @ 8:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In communist Romania, thousands of Western films on bootleg VHS tapes \u2014 mostly Hollywood action movies \u2014 were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, opening a window into the free world. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Under President Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu, Romania was culturally isolated and ideologically censored. Images of life outside its borders were cut off and TV was reduced to propaganda bulletins. From the drab concrete housing blocks to the food ration lines, the threat of surveillance prevented people from stepping out of line. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But in the mid-1980s, under the nose of the Securitate, Ceau\u0219escu\u2019s secret police, thousands of Hollywood films were smuggled into the country by an underground operative named Zamfir, and they were all covertly dubbed by Irina Nistor, a courageous translator whose distinct voice captivated the nation and became a symbol of freedom. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM MONDAY, JANUARY 4 @ 8:00PM In communist Romania, thousands of Western films on bootleg VHS tapes \u2014 mostly Hollywood action movies \u2014 were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, opening a window into the free world. Under President Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu, Romania was culturally isolated and ideologically censored. Images of life outside its … Continue reading INDEPENDENT LENS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12188,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions\/12188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}