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    Van Halen Soviet Propoganda

    I'm trying to work out the reasoning behind this one, I can't think of a lyric...

    Not that there was much reasoning going on.


    From Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
    By Alexei Yurchak


    Did you ever want to see AC/DC, The B-52′s, Pink Floyd, Donna Summer, The Village People, and Julio Iglesias in the same place? Well then, you can either read my dream journal or check out this list of Western music banned on Soviet radio stations. The list was titled “The approximate list of foreign musical groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions” (catchy title) and was distributed to Communist Party officials in January of 1985. We like how they call it an “approximate list”. Everything in the USSR was so slapdash.

    The blacklist was written by Komsomol, the Youth Wing of the Communist Party. They believed neo-fascism was being promoted by the music of AC/DC, KISS, and — the most neo-fascist of all — Julio Iglesias. They abhorred all punk music, especially the ultra-punky B-52′s. (They knew what “Rock Lobster” was really about.) Van Halen was anti-Soviet propaganda (of course), the Village People were violent (sure), and Donna Summer was just too erotic (fair enough).

    The Scotsman talked to members of some of the acts on the blacklist. Chas Smash of Madness (banned for being “punk”) joked that their hit “Baggy Trousers” was secretly about “a scheme to smuggle out of the USSR as many dissidents as possible hidden in the trousers of sympathetic Cossacks.”

    Banning these artists didn’t have the intended effect, of course. It only drew more attention to bootlegs of the banned music. Cunning entrepreneurs would buy used X-Ray films from hospitals, cut them into circles, and record bootleg songs onto the flimsy discs. The bootlegs were nicknamed Ribs and were low quality but incredibly cheap, sometimes only a ruble. We feel sorry for anyone who wasted their ruble on Julio Iglesias. Should have bought AC/DC instead, Aleksey.




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    The Russians probably didn't understand the true inspiration for the Full Bug...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZahZoo View Post
    The Russians probably didn't understand the true inspiration for the Full Bug...
    Actually western intelligence agencies used rock and roll as a psychological weapon to help break the Soviets control over their youth. There was a underground rock scene in the Soviet Union and the KGB couldn't control it. Rockers like Yngwie Malmsteen who's father worked in Swedish intelligence were sent into the Soviet Union to perform. Yngwie didn't know his father was using him for psychological warfare. He just thought he was playing some gigs which he was but he actually was operationalized in an intelligence operation. The Police were sent to places like India and Egypt to convince the youth in such places western culture was so much funner and better than anything the KGB was selling them. Christianity was used as well since there was a strong Christian underground in the eastern block countries. Pope John Paul I was instrumental on running the christian psyop.
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