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 — which ...
Today we take a break from the serious and often depressing international news beat to bring you the sound's of Soviet Central Asia in the 1970's and 80's. Our Moscow correspondent introduces us to an ...
Additional posts on Reddit, X and Facebook circulated the same list in prior years, along with the claim it represented official Soviet policy. In 2014, music news outlet Spin published a similar list ...