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Rock in the USSR: New photos of the Leningrad underground during perestroika
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- nadezhda18 10y agothese were fun times.... Wind of change and absence of Putin
- digi_owl 10y agoThen again my understanding is that Putin came to power much because Yeltsin road that wind of change into the ground...
- nadezhda18 10y agoI think ruling a country was a load too heavy for his shoulders.
- mlvljr 10y agoMan used to be pretty loaded all by himself, that's a fact :)
- rangibaby 10y agoIraq 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.
- blahi 10y agoIraq 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.
- coldtea 10y agoYeah, nothing a drunk lackey in power selling your country to the highest bidders...
- rdtsc 10y agoIn 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 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69_m4gtZDk A mix of Tsoi video clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSfWYM0yJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSfWYM0yJs
- kahnpro 10y agoAnother one of his famous songs: Кукушка (Kukushka: cuckoo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJItrpLE8rE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJItrpLE8rE Tsoi was a great artist who died way too young.
- rdtsc 10y agoThanks. Really like that one as well.
- tekni5 10y agoStill 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.
- ino 10y agoreminds me of the russian copies of foreign vinyl records on x-ray pictures
- mlvljr 10y agoWe came up with an idea of optic storage for audio data rather early, yes (during WW2 it was, I think) :)
- madengr 10y agoI remember it was a big deal in the 80's for Iron Maiden to play behind the Iron Curtain.
- dschiptsov 10y agowhy here?