Some of your favorite bands are probably on this list
Putin wouldn’t want you to see this list. It proves that his beloved Soviets were completely terrified of the West’s “violent,” “fascist,” “racist,” and, dare we say, “erotic” music. a weapon of war. Don’t believe us? Believe Komsomol, the Youth Wing of the Communist Party, who put together
of bands to be banned from proletariat society. The translated list above is from Alexei Yurchak’s new book, opens with:If you were a Russian who wanted to slow dance with your high school sweetheart to theof Julio Iglesias , you were flat out of luck. Pretty ironic, considering when this writer lived in St. Petersburg in 2011, you couldn’t buy groceries without hearing a little Iglesias whispering in your ear.
that the band’s song “Baggy Trousers” was really about “a scheme to smuggle out of the U.S.S.R. as many dissidents as possible hidden in the trousers of sympathetic Cossacks.” I mean, c’mon, with lyrics like these —Kicking pushbikes after darka direct afront by the bourgeois to the containment of a fair and equal communist society?
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