It is one of the names given in the West to a pirated recording method that existed in the USSR after World War II, when the communist regime banned all music coming from Europe and America, plus some local artists. Thanks to smuggling into ports during the 1950s, the so-called 1087; 1080; 1089; 1072; 1082; 1080; (Pisaki "small recorder") could make copies of the recordings on discs that entered illegally, and in the absence of acetate for the plates used X-rays were collected from hospitals, which were cut in a circle and recorded on them with equipment similar to those used during the war by the chroniclers who sent audios from the front. They were relatively cheap, although they only withstood about ten passes always with very poor sound quality; and yet they were avidly consumed by the 1089; 1090; 1080; 1083; 1103; 1075; 1080; (Stilyagi "style hunters"), a tribe of young people who challenged the system by wearing a more Western style of their own. The local name of these plates was 1082; 1086; 1089; 1090; 1103; 1093; (kostiaj "bones") or 1088; 1105; 1073; 1088; 1072; ( hriobra "ribs" ) , because they were recorded without cleaning the X-ray images. . . And it was what you could see spinning on the plate.
