“I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.” LongProblemPastPowerfulTeacherStudentsMusicianCapitalismWesternIdeologyPropagandaCommunistSovietSoviet UnionVery PowerfulRock MusicLong Hair Author:Albert Kuvezin
“We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was the biggest problem of Communists - they didn't care about the cultural life of aboriginal people, here especially in Siberia. Maybe it brought them to collapse.” PeopleThinkingProblemCareCultureWesternCommunistClassical MusicAboriginal Author:Albert Kuvezin