Yuri Shevchuk - NYT article on Underground Soviet rocker born in a gulag

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Sat Jul-17-10 05:13 AM
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Yuri Shevchuk - NYT article on Underground Soviet rocker born in a gulag

link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/world/europe/17rocker.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

Very interesting article...strangely, the Russian social structure sounds just like what the GOP wants for America - Rich and poor, no one in between, lots of rules, laws and police - on the poor.

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Sat Jul-17-10 06:43 AM
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1. Rock n Roll and the counter culture ended authoritarian communism

not Reagan.

Shevchuk said he was drawn to rock �n� roll as a way to escape the morass of 1970s Soviet Russia, the Brezhnev era of stagnation.

�The sound of the electric guitar with fuzz freed our generation from this darkness and slavery,� he said. �We sought out the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin and Van Morrison, and we were thankful for every song because it was fresh. It was the energy of modern times.�

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