The "red telephone" was a famous hotline which linked the White House via the National Military Command Center with the Kremlin during the Cold War.
I'm also pretty sure I heard Arthur Lee say in an interview that most businesses in Russia were also fitted with red telephones which would be used to pass down orders from the state. The phone would ring and it would be whoever was regarded as your superior passing on orders, them having received a call on their red telephone from their superiors.
The "red telephone" was a famous hotline which linked the White House via the National Military Command Center with the Kremlin during the Cold War.
I'm also pretty sure I heard Arthur Lee say in an interview that most businesses in Russia were also fitted with red telephones which would be used to pass down orders from the state. The phone would ring and it would be whoever was regarded as your superior passing on orders, them having received a call on their red telephone from their superiors.
Ahhh totalitarian governments eh?