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Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summer Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
On Dec. 17, 2024, a post on X showed a photo, purportedly from 1985, that listed Western musical acts allegedly banned in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The circulated list ...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
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Inside the Covert World of Bootleg X-Ray Records
Many forms of music were forbidden in the Soviet Union, especially in the first years of the Cold War. Western jazz and rock-and-roll were deemed the music of the enemy; Russian-émigré pop ...
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Soviet Wired Radio, How It Worked
At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, ...
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Stas and Frank Do the Tango
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