But they needed to fill the rooms
since the very start of USSR people in russia and USSR countries always were trying to bring something into country illegally and they were actually very successful
especially closer to 80's there were people that would bring foreign products into black market and sell it
and after the USSR collapse when gaming came in there were lot of pirated consoles and piracy remained normal even to this day there
They won't even let us send money to Ukraine
And pirated localizations
russians did their own voice overs
we have popular localizers
Some voiceovers were professional, without being voiceover
Like, there were some games that had speech separated
his name is Goblin he voiced all the movies almost back then
Their Grinch work is half assed
By RGR Studio or Vector if I'm not wrong
In the cutscenes there are music and voices mixed together
But there are some parts that they can just do their voice professionaly without being a pain to hear