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How Rock and Roll Brought the Soviet Union Down

Sergei Zhuk remembers the first time he heard rock and roll. "I was six years old when my brother brought the record Rubber Soul from the Beatles," he said. Zhuk grew up in the USSR in 1960s and 70s. He said everybody was obsessed with the Beatles and Rolling Stones back then. "Because it was very unusual for our ears. It was sincere, with a lot of energy," Zhuk said. Sergei Zhuk, who moved to the United States in the 1990s, is a professor of history at Ball State University in Indiana. He traces how this forbidden music slipped under the Iron Curtain, and hastened the demise of Soviet communism in his new book, "Rock and Roll in the Rocket City." He has a provocative thesis. "I would argue that rock music per se did not destroy Socialism, but the values and cultural practices related to obtaining this music contributed to the end of socialism,"
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Soviet-era alternative rock band Kino
 
There's a song called "I Just Shit My Pants". A lot of our JPP Bluntskulls are listening to this now. Quite popular.
 
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G I Jive: American Hits of WW2 - 1930s & 1940s (Past Perfect)


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I bought several CDs of music from the 30s and 40s to play at supper time for my dementia patients. Loved how they would brighten up, and sometimes sing along, to songs from their youth.
 
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