Well, category theory is pure subversive stuff, just check the Lawvere-Hegel link or Grothendieck giving lectures at the Hanoi jungle to protest Vietnam War :)
Speaking of Hanoi, leg warmers were another item of pop culture found on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
"Hanoi" Jane vs. Liliya Sabitova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_VnsmATFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SXPbDPMVE
(bonus track: Hart, "Peace for Triple Piano" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY )