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How Folk Music Defeated the Soviet Union
In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon. For decades under Soviet rule, Estonians gathered to sing folk songs that ...
‘Back in the USSR’: The Paul McCartney solo album released exclusively in Soviet Russia
Revisiting 'Back in the USSR', a forgotten solo album by former Beatles member Paul McCartney which was released exclusively in the Soviet Union back in 1988.
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Seven Soviet Songs
A portrait film of the Soviet popular music Popular performers and composers talk about their work The film includes both on the screen and behind it the songs A Song Is Going in a Circle A Sports ...
Back in the USSR: Putin revives Soviet-era 'Eurovision' with new allies
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to ...
Russia to relaunch Soviet-era Eurovision Song Contest rival in Moscow under Putin’s orders
The revived contest, planned to take place in Moscow later this year, is Russia's way of directly challenging Eurovision ...
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Russia to relaunch Soviet-era Eurovision Song Contest rival in Moscow under Putin’s orders
Launched under the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Intervision Song Contest took place in ... (Solidarność), an independent trade union that opposed the ruling communist government ...