Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Live in the USSR. Soviet vacation 7. A trip to sunny Bulgaria #ussr, #soviet" video.

My wife was Slovenian. There were many, many Slovenians in Cleveland. I think it was the largest Slovenian city outside Slovenia in the 70's. It seemed like we were constantly shipping things like jeans and small radios of various types to her relatives in Slovenia. There was an electronics store downtown that specialized in SECAM and PAL TVs and VCRs to send back home. Slovenia used PAL, but her relatives sold SECAM items to Russian tourists. Everyone hustled to make that extra buck or dinar back then.
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@steliosarvanitis5606 Apparently it wasn't close enough for color, especially SECAM IV, the Russian system that wasn't even compatible with the French SECAM system. We had to know where TVs were going before we sent one over to the relatives. Now it just about no longer matters as Russia, like all of Europe, is (or has) migrated to the digital DVB system. I think Russia finally switches sometime this year.
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Were people like doctors allowed to go overseas for training? I know there were some types of operations and procedures that were only taught in Europe or the United States.
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