That was enough to trigger organized attacks on Tairov in the Soviet media.
What's different now is that their complaints, formerly restricted to angry, furtive conversation, are being published in the Soviet media.
The Soviet media will not show the crushed bodies; glasnost is finished, having served this regimes's purpose.
This announcement was broadcast in the Soviet media.
The report says the assertion was published or broadcast by the Soviet media at least 32 times from January to June 1987.
The Soviet media picked up the story and eventually there was a "press firestorm".
"We'll continue to monitor the Soviet media to ascertain that, in fact, the disinformation campaign has ceased," he said.
It appeared forty times in Soviet media in 1987 alone.
The incident immediately revealed the wide gulf that existed between Western and Soviet media.
The Soviet media didn't often cover that, and Oleg was curious as to what they'd show.