>>14001243
They were communist at the time. Tetris was invented in '84, before Gorby's paristroika reforms that would usher in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Numerologists and fortune tellers and religious zealots used to be much more popular back then, and I remember reading some of my Grandma's religious rags when we'd go over to visit. Apparently the birthmark on Gorby's head in numerologically the Mark of the Beast, and she and a few of my aunts were absolutely convinced that he was the anti-christ who would march soviet armies into Rome and trigger the apocalypse.
I couldn't play Tetris around them, because they thought it had subliminal messages that corrupt and subvert western players, as revenge for capitalism beating them.
Those were fun times.