And anything you post is on a par with the Onion.
Are you deliberately attempting to sound stupid? A modern nation without the internet would be on a par with a nation in the decades you mentioned without a modern communication system. What's your next analogy? 12th Century Russia?
the iron wall came down a few years before the internet
the russians used fax machines to disseminate the real news
and guess what?
that wall came down, and was coming down before Regan even said a word
because the truth did get out
"Fax Machines Become A Fact Of Life For Soviets
September 24, 1989|By Vincent J. Schodolski, Chicago Tribune.
MOSCOW — The telefax machine, a device that would have sent shivers down the spines of old-time doctrinaire defenders of Soviet propaganda, has invaded the Soviet Union.
...The fax, the child of the marriage between a telephone and a photocopier, is transforming the way that Soviets, from political dissidents to foreign ministry officials, communicate..."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-24/news/8901150763_1_fax-lithuanian-soviet-union