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The communists were convinced that music, fashion, films, and, in general, the entire mass culture and counterculture from the West were weapons of the Cold War - no less dangerous than bombs. I will tell you which bands and singers were forbidden and how that forbiddance was explained.
00:18 Western culture as a “weapon“ of the Cold War
01:49 “We recommend that you prohibit the playing and demonstration“
02:43 AC/DC
03:16 Van Halen
03:42 Village People
04:35 KISS
05:48 Pink Floyd. “Brezhnev took Afghanistan“.
06:55 Tina Turner
07:42 Dschinghis Khan. “Moscow-Moscow - We will throw bombs, We will dance on the ruins of the Kremlin!”
09:43 Depeche Mode
09:47 Michael Jackson
10:12 Julio Iglesias
10:47 Through the Iron Curtain
12:22 Madonna
13:50 Led Zeppelin
14:47 Perestroika. Scorpions, Nazareth, Ozzy Osbourne in the USSR
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