Of all the little victories in the Cold War, few were as inspirational and instructive as the story of Irina Margareta Nistor and her movie revolution. Irina was a multilingual censor for Romanian State Television.  In 1985, she was approached with a risky offer: would she like to earn some extra income by dubbing a smuggled foreign film?  She agreed, and her audition film, Dr. Zhivago, was a great success.  For the next four years Irina went on to dub voice tracks for, she estimates, nearly 1,000 bootlegged movies. That's even harder than it sounds.  Irina dubbed every voice in every movie.  Hers was the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Sylvester Stallone (action movies were especially popular in Romania), and all the other leads, supporting actors and actresses, as well as the dozens of lesser characters that constitute a finished film.  Irina Margareta Nistor's voice became the most listened to and beloved in...(Read Full Post)