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Rock in the USSR: New photos of the Leningrad underground during perestroika

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In the late 80's I remember my aunt was a huge fan of Victor Tsoi. I was too little to understand but looking back it is hard to describe how popular he was with that generation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi

He was the father of Soviet rock scene. Even though his (and his band's - Kino) songs would probably be deemed more pop than rock these days.

Grupa Krovi (Blood Type) is probably my favorite and his most known song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69_m4gtZDk

A mix of Tsoi video clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSfWYM0yJs

Another one of his famous songs: Кукушка (Kukushka: cuckoo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJItrpLE8rE

Tsoi was a great artist who died way too young.

Thanks. Really like that one as well.

Still insanely popular among 20-30 somethings, was at a party the other day and someone started playing one of the songs on guitar probably 80-90% knew the lyrics and were singing along and these are Russians living in Canada.

these were fun times.... Wind of change and absence of Putin

Then again my understanding is that Putin came to power much because Yeltsin road that wind of change into the ground...

Iraq wouldn't have happened if the USSR had their shit together. NATO aggression and the subsequent destruction of Yugoslavia was what really sealed the deal. The Russians realized they were next (see: Chechnya) and decided to stop playing nice.

Iraq and pretty much everythink bad in the middle East stems from ussr ivasion of Afghanistan. It's not the sole target for blame (plenty Of that to go around for everybody) but it's what (re)started to dumpster fire.

I think ruling a country was a load too heavy for his shoulders.

Yeah, nothing a drunk lackey in power selling your country to the highest bidders...

I remember it was a big deal in the 80's for Iron Maiden to play behind the Iron Curtain.

reminds me of the russian copies of foreign vinyl records on x-ray pictures

why here?

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