This is a translated list of Western rock bands that Soviet Komsomol (a Communist Party for young people) singled out for deletion from the list of permissible music to be played at Soviet dance clubs, due to their "ideologically harmful compositions." I never saw it before because it was for internal use only, but I felt the invisible presence of such lists throughout my entire life in the Motherland.
Now that I live in New York, my ******** showed me this page her professor of Russian history distributed for discussion. It is taken from a book by Alexei Yurchak "Everything Was Forever, until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation." The chapter is called "True Colors of Communism: King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd." The entire text can be found in Google books. Scroll to page 215 for this diagram. Read the chapter for more context.
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Very interesting that Yazoo, Bohannon, The B-52's, Donna Summer, Blondie, Talking Heads... All ****** in the former USSR in the '80s. And Julio Iglesias too! :eek:
Now that I live in New York, my ******** showed me this page her professor of Russian history distributed for discussion. It is taken from a book by Alexei Yurchak "Everything Was Forever, until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation." The chapter is called "True Colors of Communism: King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd." The entire text can be found in Google books. Scroll to page 215 for this diagram. Read the chapter for more context.
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Very interesting that Yazoo, Bohannon, The B-52's, Donna Summer, Blondie, Talking Heads... All ****** in the former USSR in the '80s. And Julio Iglesias too! :eek:
