[CW] CW in Russia

[Thomas Beaudry]

>>> I had seen that CW was a mandatory skill for elementary
>>> school children in the former Soviet Union and that CW
>>> was universally known.
>
> Where did you see that?  Sounds like propaganda to me.
> Morse was taught in radio clubs, which were often associated
> with schools, but that's as close as it got.

I remember a story in a history of the Cold War.  A Russian was sent to 
a gulag for spying.  The proof:  possession of a straight key without 
being a member of the military or a radio club.  That kind of paranoia 
would seem to preclude universal instruction of Morse.

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Thomas M. Beaudry
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