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[@horusgaming8797]

Being a punk band in the Soviet Union might be the most punk think possible

[@Ultr4l0f]

Yeah. Its like the black metal bands that exists in countries like Iran. Its very ... REAL.

[@MeatGuyJ]

being Punk in Cuba was probably harder. the Los Frikis subculture involved being infected with HIV so the government could send you to a sanitarium.

[@DarkStormProduction5]

Not really... No matter what so many modern idiots may go against today, punk is a left wing movement, always have been. Unless you were more left than the Soviets or Anarchist or something, you weren't punk. The most punk would be rebelling about western societal norms and Capitalism.

[@ZainAhmad-jl4vt]

being punk might be the most punk thing of all

[@desserted9429]

Oh it is. I guess only punks in china can outpunk soviet punks.

[@Rusty1951]

Playing the Beach Boys on an x-ray of a broken leg would go hard as fuck

[@SatEight]

Beach Boys were pretty much ignored by soviet rockers. They as well as the Rolling Stones couldn't compete with the Beatles. Popularity in the west did not always convert to popularity in the USSR. Bob Dylan, for example, was not popular at all. But rather mediocre bands like Nazareth or Smokie were incredibly popular competing with Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

[@Rusty1951]

@@SatEight Interesting!

[@КактусиноГенриэтто]

​@@Rusty1951our dads and grandpas are praying on a Richie Blackmore.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@SatEight Obviously, as they couldn't even understand the lyrics, and that's all that Bob Dylan's music was about. Very boring stuff as far as I'm concerned.

[@nopenope-y9m]

Using x-rays as records is actually metal as fuck

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

is sell check metal asf

[@Doorframe-c2i]

Dawn of the black hearts-core

[@gloopshito2907]

this phenomenon was literally called "music on bones", or so I was told by my mother

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

How is that ''metal''?

[@Chrawnic001]

@@incumbentvinyl9291it’s cool

[@cool_boi-sv3jz]

Just for y'all to know - Гражданская оборона is translating in something like"civil defense". However, it's abbreviation is called ГрОб, which, in Russian, literally means "Coffin"

[@bitya8010]

Letov's story is actually really interesting. At the time he was put into mental hospital, it was common among Soviet mental hospitals to kinda destroy minds of socially unacceptable individuals by overloading them with drugs. According to Letov, he could've gone mad but he realized there's a way to stay sane soon enough. That way was to write little poems, obviously they were pretty psychedelic.

[@bitya8010]

also, one of the funniest things about Letov is that, although initially being anti-soviet, after USSR vanished he claimed that he has always been a communist. He said that he was always for real communism, where everyone is happy, calling it heaven on Earth. In 1993 he and his punk friends even tried to protect white house, but babushkas and other commies that were already defending it didn't like their appearance very much

[@BabyBat14]

Oh yes, the evil Soviet hospitals that did the very same thing the US mental hospitals did

[@Ляляляляляляляляяяяя]

You're wrong. There is not a single document confirming that Letov was in a psychiatric hospital

[@_vlnt_7800]

Entupir uma pessoa socialmente inaceitável de drogas para matar seu cérebro??? Hum... Isso soa familiar. Parece que um nome contemporâneo vem a mente quando este assunto é exposto. Hum.... seria Ju... Juli... Julian Assange!?!

[@Spartanezz2033]

Эти стишки стали подоплëкой для альбома "Оптимизм"

[@kkarhiiv95]

One of my relatives was a punk rocker here in soviet Estonia in the 80s.

[@alucard_0177]

that’s super cool i visited estonia and saw the underground tunnels that most bands had to play in

[@ikopotamus7774]

@@alucard_0177 The ones under the Kiek in de Kök bastion in Tallinn?

[@zackcash4941]

Yegor Letov mentioned 10/10

[@arocantplay]

Wished Kino and Viktor Tsoi were mentioned. Kino managed to be one of the few Soviet bands in the 80s to be heard outside of it as much. Definitely worth making a video over the band.

[@juicygoosy7150]

He showed a photo of the lead drummer and the lead guitarists wife in one pic

[@zingos3025]

Viktor Tsoi Pidoras i Huesos

[@mybloodyvacuum]

viktor tsoi is the greatest man on the earth

[@Evil_water_melon]

It would be nice, but the thing is that it's not a punk, it's post punk, so it's not a thing connected with punk. I mean, ideas of Tsoi are different compare to Letov for example. Like, the first thing is about life experience, personal things and about abstracts that can interpreted in different ways. The second one, is literal punk who's singing about lots weird stuff, being sarcastic about goverment and abstract philosphical shit that I can't describe. Like, Tsoi in my heart forever, that's my childhood music, Цой жив, etc... But it's not for that video.

[@zingos3025]

"Kino" is just russian "The Cure"

[@daven9967]

Great video! Gonna be awaiting a future vid on Letov and GROB as in my eyes, Letov is one of the best lyrical writers to ever exist, constantly speaking in metaphors, philosophical terms and referencing everything from fairy tales to Soviet Leader speeches.

[@sm0key529]

If someone wants some examples (eng transl - rus/...): DK - ДК Civil Defence - Гражданская оборона (especially

[@mybloodyvacuum]

posledni geroi is way better

[@Axxx1oma]

Хз, свидетельство о смерти вообще ни к селу, ни к городу, ведь она уже появилась в РФ (1994) и никакого протеста под собой не имела... Но ради справедливости, как идеальный пример вдохновения Летовым можно привести...

[@lelop2770]

"Пурген" and the frontman's earlier band "Ленин-Самотык" are great examples of Soviet/Russian punk, Purgen's album "Все государства - концлагеря" is the quintessence of punk rock to me. I never ever see Purgen mentioned in English-speaking videos, despite them seemingly being pretty notorious within the Russian-speaking sphere; However, perhaps it's because Purgen's latest albums from 2008-onwards have been relatively lacklustre.

[@tarasstets4370]

Without Zero the list in pretty much incomplete.

[@SenkaBandit]

@@lelop2770thanks I will check them out

[@thedootslayer3339]

Punk is ingrained in Russian rock, the first bands to do it, did it illegally, and in rebellion as rock music was banned, most notably Aquarium.

[@Timsturbs]

rock was not banned as a whole, there were white a black lists for what bands can and cant be distributed in su

[@mania104]

​@@Timsturbsts was ass tho

[@jbbbllz]

aquarium is fucking pops

[@jackreeder215]

I hope Kino is mentioned, cause they are quite Kino.

[@The_Metal_Hocker]

FAL? From teen politics?

[@buhoylancer8496]

kino is just a soviet the cure knock off

[@Soviet_BulleT]

Spoiler, it's not and as someone who comes from the U.S.S.R I was shocked

[@realfunnyceo]

@@buhoylancer8496 they dont even sound like the cure...

[@Melatonine1987]

They don’t quite fit into the soviet punk category

[@manimaman]

Sweaty anarchist vs a entire fucking nation

[@DestructorN7]

I can't see that entire fuckin nation anymore, how curious...

[@manimaman]

​@@DestructorN7we know who won now

[@thedootslayer3339]

​​@@manimamanidk what you where responding to but atm it seems like no one did, no more communism, but the corrupt oprepressive government remained

[@Junior-gf7hi]

Btw, during the 90s he was prosoviet

[@Jieisho]

Yeah, kleptocracy and capitalism won, and they fucking used you. Countries became poorer than in the ussr days (except we polish that are straight up just fucking stealing from UE founds) and in a vast majority of them free speech is even worse... you don't understand what punk is. It's not brainless rebellion.

[@GladkiyElisey]

Letov is a damn legend. In 90's he was one of the founders of National-Bolshevik party of Russia (It's banned for many years already) together with Eduard Limonov, who was a very scandalous writer which was banned in USSR, and Sergey Kuroykhin, the author of joky "Lenin is mushroom" theory. Although the party is banned and all people I mentioned are dead, many national-bolsheviks are still active and even participate in... "Current events". Also, this dude wrote more than 1000 songs.

[@butternut5593]

Wait, the facist party???? Fuck him then Jesus.

[@Dizerfullpower]

who would have known that rooting for a single nation ultimately destroys solidarity with the world at large?

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

i made 1000 songs in 3 years .. thats not much tbh underground artists make more music

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

@@Dizerfullpower america only roots for a single nation the people thier think the smallest of issues should be delt with over starving children just because its in their country and the children arent

[@shrekhands9268]

​@@lilwoodiewood3457in soviet union, in a small shack... While neighbors complained daily... And this music was basically illegal.

[@PezzDunn]

Cant wait for a video about Letov or punk group King and Jester. A big thank you from Russia, its a pleasure to get recognition from other cultures❤

[@kitonbass]

Letov's fan from Russia here, I think he deserves a video more than any other band, just because he is really uniqie in really many ways. Firstly, he was more than a punk, his music was more like art-rock. idk how to say that in English, but the thing is that Letov simply dont fit in simple 'punk' or 'russian rock' boundaries. It is psychedelic rock, noize-shoegase-grunge type of thing. His best album is probably '100 лет одиночества' ('100 Years of Solitude') distributed under the name 'Егор и Опизденевшие', which is untranslatable, i think, but can be simplified to something like 'Egor and mad fucks'. Anyway, album have a lot of unique sound features and deep, but simple lyrics that you can think of for eterninty. It is now recognized by many individuals as the best Russian rock album (but Letoc here is not mainstream guy, so those individuals are mostly Letov's fans haha) Secondly, his life story is incredible. Sometimes it is really sad, sometimes weird and unexpected, but damn he has nuts. For example, there was First Rock Festival in Novosibirsk, and on that fest Letov was performing some... let's say 'problematic' songs with his newly formed band 'Adolf Hitler'. In Soviet Union. In 80's. (they said name 'GrOb' to authorities to get to the fest) Of course, it was Hitler's first and last concert in USSR, but the fact that it even WAS.... There is even a record here on KZbin, video is called 'ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ОБОРОНА - 1-й Н-ский РФ 12.04.1987 Более полная версия'. You can just thanslate song's names from the describtion, they are really fun. btw after this concert a catch phrase was born: 'Punk in Russia lasted only for 20 minutes -- on the GrOb concert in Novosibirsk. Everething else is already postpunk' But when USSR died, Letov joined National Bolshevik party, which now are banned here, but it was communists and nationalists guys. And Egor was there because he believed in Communism and was upset by Eltsin's 'democrathy'. So that guy was everytime against the mainstream because he was feeling different way, and yes, he was put in asylum by KGB, but didnt lost his faith in communism in there. And he also was a great songwriter and producer, who made record label from his small apartment :) P.S. I think, I shold say that Letov was anti-fachist, was not Nazi, and criticized all of that stuff, but used it to shock the authorities (and mankind, I guess)

[@ekpyrosis1]

Когда у него были проблемы с кгбшниками, от коммунизма он был еще очень далек. Это уже в 90х ностальгические чувства вывезли, да и к тому же быть большевиком, да ещё и национал-большевиком это реально протестно на фоне общего нарратива 90х

[@kitonbass]

@@ekpyrosis1 в целом согласен, но в интервью он говорил, что в истинный коммунизм как "построение царствия Божия на земле" верил всегда. Хотя он много чего говорил, на самом деле)

[@reinis2536]

If you want to know more about siberian punk, there is documentary about them on youtube called "traces in the snow" which is available with english subtitles

[@Brandon_Brando]

Thank you

[@justsomeguywithagoatee]

Thank You, man! Waiting for a video about Egor Letov and Grazhdanskaya Oborona

[@topwaifu2104]

Caught you

[@kogure7235]

My mom recently told me about punk shows she has been to in ex-Soviet Union not long after it fell apart, and it was incredible to hear about. She wasn't too well-versed in the music then, still isn't, it was mostly her friends taking her there, but apparently she still enjoyed it. Was kinda wild to hear about the scene in our town well before I was born.

[@ДанилМанаков-ш6б]

Listen депутат Балтики

[@_vlnt_7800]

@@ДанилМанаков-ш6б Muito bom esse som! Bem parecido com Ton Steine Scherben...

[@dudosya_1239]

I'm really dissapointed that author didn't mention that Automatic Satisfiers had Viktor Tsoy in their band, who became a Russian rock legend. Also, Letov's is truly gigachad in the music sphere. He created a whole studio in his flat while others could only be published by governmental label. He also told a lot of other interesting stories, foe example, one of the albums was written after he had a 40+ temperature for a month after bite of mite. Also he had a lot of political views, starting from simple antisoviet lyrics, then he had a nazi-communism period and later he became anarchist AFAIK. But probably some of his stories (the mental hospital one too) are fake, there are no evidence other than Letov's words.

[@angelwalsh7585]

That victor tsoi thing is a bit of a fuck up on his part thanks for putting that there

[@uberbuba228]

виктор цой не панк браза, он рокер, но было бы приятно его увидеть. тут просто также нету неумоева, юрия клинского, ну и конечно группы адольф гитлер

[@dudosya_1239]

@@uberbuba228 я не говорил что он панк, но он был в автоматических адовлетворителях

[@nurglecultist2521]

Летов реально был в дурке. Эту историю подтверждал его брат, Кузя УО, и их родители

[@leocompot]

Мой дед слушал много разной музыки на костях, я недавно нашёл его коллекцию чьих-то рентгетограмм😅

[@gloopshito2907]

bro, swag vid. ima big Letov fan, so thanks a lot for enlightening western fellas (and maybe some russian fellas too) about soviet punk scene. from russia with ROCK :D

[@kyspal]

I am a huge fan of Letov, Grob is my favourite band. Despite the fact that he is associated with punk scene, his main inspiration was actually psychedelic rock, which is very clear when you hear his other project called "Yegor i Opizdenevshie". He even took inspiration from shoegaze in his 1996 albums "Солнцеворот" and "невыносимая лёгкость бытия", and I think that his 2000's albums are very underrated, they are much more psychedelic and have good quality. Just listen to the song "долгая счастливая жизнь" (long happy life) and you'll get it. He definitely deserves an entire video

[@dima4566]

да Летов панк-рок, в привычном попсу понимании, особо и не писал, что ранние альбомы: "Красный альбом", "Поганая молодёжь", "оптимизм", "панк и рок-н-рол", что во времена посева, что потом. В его музыке больше слышится психодел 60х, блюз и регги. Панковых песен у него не так много, по сравнению со всем его творчеством.

[@ФидельАхмедович]

Really?@mimehollow

[@kyspal]

@mimehollow yeah, I really love them too, I doubt there is any song I don't like on any of their 2 albums, despite the low quality of the audio recording, which I think is more of a feature than an issue, cuz Letov could've rerecorded / remaster them in a better quality like he did with his two 1996 albums in 2000's, because both Letov and many Letov's fans agree that this project was the best thing he had ever done

[@ivanYuganin]

@@dima4566 Летов всегда вдохновлялся гаражным роком, а эстетика у него была хиповская. Фенечки там браслетики, патлы длинные. Гражданская оборона уже была весьма известна, когда ему сказали, что это все похоже на панк. Ну он ответил - хер с ним, панк так панк. Это его, собственно, летова воспоминания. Они больше на хипарей были похожи. В драки не лез, буянил только на концертах, портвейном на граждан - не блевал. Все в тексты пошло, а тексты надо сказать, самые отбитые. Я такого и в западном роке не видал.

[@rade6031]

@@ivanYuganin По-моему ранняя ГО - самый классический панк, с примесью нойза и регги. Оптимизм - с уклоном в пост-панк. И Летов всегда любил панк. Особенно The Stooges, Ramones, Television и Buzzcocks. Buzzcocks и Ramones даже использовались в "Коммунизме" вроде. Но и психодел тоже любил, да. "Анархисты любят транк Анархисты знают срок Анархисты любят панк Анархисты любят рок" - "Анархия (Да будет!)" (1987) "Панк это агрессивный хиппизм" - Егор Летов, из интервью "Панки в своём кругу".

[@zyabber]

While not exactly Punk, I would highly recommend digging into Ukrainian "Mustache Funk" - there's even a whole movie about it. Basically it was an indie scene of funk, prog rock, jazz and disco artists interpreting national and folk music in the 70s while practically isolated from the world musical scene. It's a gem.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

so its just soviet mustCHE FUNK THEN in the 70ss that was th soviet union .. why is all this punk under the soviet union umbrella but that funk iisnt .. many countries are groouped here into soviet punk .. its soviet music from soviet times in the soviet union ... either we give everybody their own space and dont use soviet as a title or we group em by country ass its not fair to group russians kazakhs turkmen uzbeks all together And more but to seperate ukrainian from them ..is not fair when u group them as one or should i say they i doubt ud showt in suppport of kazakhstan if russia was their instead of ukraine nobody would eveyrbody in the west wouldnt care it has stan in the name

[@tandemkhz]

@@lilwoodiewood3457 first of all, it's about language not country of origin, so don't be a fucking asshole, nobody calls kazakh punk music from 70s sovietpunk, second of all its two different genres from the core, third of all nobody wants to be a part of "soviet cult" this shit fucking sucks and there's much more than soviet punk to this type of music.

[@Makskori]

@@lilwoodiewood3457 I know what you mean doe

[@olbrue]

There was no such thing as "Mustache Funk". This seems to be a jealousy driven behindhand creation of absent history. There were these commonplace vocal-instrumental ensembles with nice melodies and often reminiscent of the 60-70's Western rock all over the Union. The Ukranian SSR did have some solid underground rock acts, like Kolezhskiy Assessor, Bratiya Gadyukiny, Vopli Vidoplyasova. But no Mustache Funk wave, it is bullshit. You'd rather not believe the modern Ukranian media. They are traumatized and filled with lies

[@alenye7043]

Just to mention, Egor Letov's elder brother Sergei Letov played in DK, what influenced Egor a lot. Class origins and education of Soviet punk band members is also an interesting topic. Andrey Panov (Avtonaticheskiye udovletvoriteli) was from Leningrad ballet-dancer family. The founder of DK - Sergei Zharikov is mathematical analyst by education. Letov's father was a political commissar (politruk) in the Soviet army. Victor Tsoi was from engineer family. Hardly any of them was of proletarian origin.

[@r3tzmusix]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT OUR CULTURE edit: can't wait for the Letov video you mentioned, ur a legend for this

[@sadandalonearemysafewords2740]

Fun fact: a lot of Soviet punks actually used trench coats and cut the bottom part off for leather jackets

[@Cozybmcf]

This whole ass channel is criminally underrated ❤

[@НикитаДёмочкин-й3ж]

The only thing left to be mentioned, and it's pretty unique for (ex)USSR is KOLHOZ-punk subgenre, led by wonderful (lol) FUSION-punk (as they identified themselves) band Sektor Gaza.

[@Staniszpil]

Thanks man, appreciate it

[@acemisfit9766]

thanks for the video, it's nice to see that someone in the West is interested in Siberian punk

[@lippi2171]

As someone from the former Eastern Bloc I know a couple of bands that were active under communist rule. They were infamous nationwide and were persecuted by the police, sometimes put to jail for years. A recent Hungarian film called Erasing Frank is about a punk who's bullied by the Commie state constantly. It's a dark one but recommended.

[@losfogo7149]

Kinda disappointed you didn't talk about CCCP-Fedeli alla Linea. They played, as they defined themselves, "Soviet melodic aemilian punk"; formed in the 80's after the dude met in berlin, they played in italy and even did a live in Punkow, east berlin, which they did a record with. They have a unique sound, using a drum machine and many traditional elements of italian music with punk. Fedeli alla Linea meant "loyal to the (party) line", communism and the USSR were big at that time in many parts of italy. The songs still are incredible, they are a cult here in italy and even as an anarchist punk myself i really think they are worth more than one listen. The songs focus less on the USSR and communism and more on traditional critics of modern capitalism, pulling heavily from the frankfurt school. The main guy, Lindo Ferretti, ended up making two more bands (C.S.I and Per Grazia Ricevuta), then got a lung tumor and now he's a catholic extremists who loves Meloni. Again, i really hope you listen to 'em because honestly they are something unique that you can0t get anywhere else. The best album imo is "Affinità e Divergenze tra noi e il compagno Togliatti"

[@disappeariancer]

yeah why didn't he mentioned this italian band in a video about ussr punk!

[@losfogo7149]

@@disappeariancer they were literally named and themed after the USSR, and took a lot of influence from Soviet groups

[@anonymousbloke1]

...but they weren't soviet? Why would he talk about an Italian band in a video about the USSR? Ma te sei scemo?@@losfogo7149

[@patrickholt2270]

The proletarian character of punk and it's utility as a means of expressing and promoting working class consciousness took a while to be recognised, and still arouses snobbery and persecution from traditionalists, monarchists and fundamentalists today. It's the expression of proletarian consciousness and self-confidence that offends them. Music in the Soviet Union had been one of those aspects of "high culture" that the revolution aimed to bring to the masses, as with the lavish funding of ballet to enable ordinary workers and peasants to be able to go and watch the ballet for pennies in practically any town or city in the country. So it's natural that that culture-as-enlightnment perspective of the Soviet authorities clashed with the ugly, loud and primitive sound and DIY production and gigging elements of Punk. Equally, as a country building its way out of abject poverty underdevelopment under the Tsars prior to 1917, in isolation and cut off from world markets by western trade restrictions, cheap availability of electric guitars and amplifiers wasn't a thing yet even by the 1970s. So the infrastructure for youth subcultures forming bands and producing their own music wasn't there, and hadn't been planned for by GOSPLAN.

[@Jieisho]

I think you choose the wrong video to commfnt here... everybody here is just supid sixteen year olds rebellious tards or nostalgic people of when they where like that... none of them will understood as they probably never opened a book and never will. That said, i stll thank you for taking your time to write it and explain, our number one enemy is the ignorance of people, not them.

[@chrishenniker5944]

Shame he didn’t mention socialist realism as official policy and how it affected music.

[@mishanevich]

Finally someone covered this topic in the West! Civil Defense from Perestroika period is the most true punk band, IMO. And I appreciate that you’ve also mentioned Automatic Satisfiers, DK, and Blue Vova. You did a great research.

[@plasator3707]

I'm not sure if this might be even possible to make a vid on but I would love an Australian punk history video

[@juzach]

if you want to listen to this, just take and listen to the album of another band of Egor Letov "Egor i Opizdenevshie" (Егор и Опизденевшие) called "One Hundred years of Solitude" (Сто Лет Одиночества) I especially recommend the song Ophelia (Офелия)

[@artificial_element]

my grandfather in soviet union would make his own radios to listen to outlawed Jazz stations, go to DDR germany for his job and bring back cassettes, movies and Vinyls to share around. Such a chad

[@amazingalex891]

Eager to the video about Letov and Grob

[@Elio_Kyfe]

Wish the first Soviet punk rock band was mentioned. Propeller is a really good one-album band from the Soviet Estonia

[@alezimzam5849]

In modern Russia, where I live, dissent is coming under increasing pressure. Those clubs where punk concerts are held are raided by riot police or we are constantly searched on the street. + there are a lot of Zashnikovs, military youth and policemen washed up with military propaganda

[@sakura_pompadour]

If you're into 90's Russian underground music, I highly advise you to check out Venya D'rkin (Веня Д'ркин). His style ranges from something rock-ish to magical folk fairytale music. I think his sound just has something so pure ans so inherently Russian about it that makes it stand out. Nevertheless, great video.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

soviet*

[@marguskiis7711]

Massively influential Estonian punk scene is not mentioned at all. Estonian punk was influenced by Finnish punk, which caused forming very popular quasy punk band called Propeller (Estonian answer to Finnish Sleepy Sleepers) in 1980. Also the Päratrust (later Turist) was formed almost the same time. THe first Estonian punk scene flollowers were looking like bunch of Madness fans but from mid 1980s the infamous Exploited look was adopted. Soon followed very interesting punk/new wave band called Generaator M (from 1981) , then hardcore punk band Velikie Luki, then post punk group Vennaskond. The outshoot of Velikije Luki was JMKE which got popular in Finland too some years later. The Estonian Adam & The Ants was Kulo. Soon the whole league of every kind of punk bands were created. The guy 3:54 is Villu Tamme from internationally popular Estonian punk band JMKE

[@forgottenmusic1]

It was really influential in general, not just in music. Punk music became part of the "Singing revolution" from the very beginning (when most of the other artists were still too cautious for becoming political). I wonder, if any other country has a punk album selected as "The best album ever" (J.M.K.E., "Külmale maale"; published 1989, won that title in 2014). That decision obviously includes a bow down to the events back then. Also, Estonia is having a unique (and weird for outsiders) music event, "Punklaulupidu" - after a few years, thousands of people gather to sing punk songs in choir (many of these songs are from the "Singing revolution" era as well). It's kind of a smaller alternative copy of the Estonian Song Festivals.

[@Astersss_]

wake up, the music goblin dropped another video

[@giorgidzidziguri770]

georgia mentioned rrraaaaaaahh💪💪💪

[@маринафайнова]

Holy crap, who's going to talk about the fact that Yegor Letov founded the National Bolshevik Party and regretted the collapse of the USSR!?

[@s3bast1aannn]

Kino, Bi-2, Alyanz, Boris Grabanchikov, Yanka Dyagileva, and more (tell me who I forgot to mention). You also forgot to mention Joanna Stingray.

[@elomnusk187]

sektor gaza

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

From what I understand, there's a not too dissimilar story in parts of South America as well. Government sanctioned bands were the 'scene' and everyone else was considerably more underground.

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

uh thats how it works today world wide iits just the big 3 instead of the goverment ... and before u get at me that indie artist with idk 4 million monthly listeners on spotify their not indie at all gurantee their signed to a "indie" label thats actually supported by the big 3 .. basically every single big "indie" Label is .. its a flex to get support from "underground" fans

[@Fafafohi]

Fucking love this channel and so grateful I discovered it.

[@vladjuzakov]

fun fact, pioneers in soviet punk were Estonian fellas who had had the possibility to listen more liberal Finnish radio, which revealed them the importance of freedom of art and self-expression :)

[@ledeuce4820]

Now I think you should do the same but for all the rock and rock subgenres of the former yugoslavia because they had more creative liberty when it came to their music and there are a lot of bands across many genres you can cover, including metal punk post punk etc.

[@grenadine-3-3-3]

another coolea classic would like to see post-rock explained next

[@ИгорёкНиколаев-д3в]

Пластмассовый мир победил, Макет оказался сильней. Последний кораблик остыл, Последний фонарик устал, А в горле сопят комья воспоминаний!!!

[@mrgrom338]

One small mistake, not every western music was banned in USSR, yes there was a list of songs banned from being published, but there was also handful which where legal. For Instance, in USSR living in the 60s and 70s you could have listened to Beatles and Elvis Presley. I could be wrong, but thats what my grandmother told me as she worked in the music record store in her youth.

[@sadnessy546]

Yep, I was gonna mention the same. Found Beatles and Presley's vinil recordings in the local library, with the name of the albums and songs translated into Russian.

[@stevend4600]

Летов мой любимый музыкальный исполнитель

[@lilKoshey]

Поздравляю, ешь какашки

[@WSR1917]

fun fact: word "grob" means "coffin"

[@imbittersweet9600]

Can you list the names of the russian bands mentioned ,pretty hard to find them

[@BMdegen]

Гражданская Оборона, Автоматические Удовлетворители, группа ДК

[@Владиславич]

Aquarium (Аквариум): example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3Woc4OkibtoY80 DK (ДК): example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmblpuPr5ire6c Grazdanskaya Oborona/GrOb (Гражданская Оборона/ГрОб): example:kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWTQoXmJfbGcaLs channel with translated lyrics: www.youtube.com/@matras15 Avtomaticheskie udovletvoriteli (Автоматические Удовлетворители): example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGjan2N6fqxpZtE

[@thedootslayer3339]

Some more to check out not mentioned in the video: Kino, post punk with amazing lyrics and very beautiful instrumentals, Korol i Shut (Король и Шут) was a horror folk punk band heavily inspired by the Misfits, but not in the American way with acoustic guitars but by adding folky instruments like violin and occasional flute into the mix and they are imo far better than their influence, Splean, not quite punk instrumental esp in their first albums, but def punk lyrics in a lot of their songs, also very flute and violin heavy but in a very rock way with plenty of sick guitar moments.

[@Timsturbs]

Egor Letov is the only soviet "punk", everything else is ether meh or was made after 87 so is only technically soviet going more into post soviet territory

[@alienrat-z3g]

Some of this reminds me of what I know about underground music in the GDR. Mainly the political messages that had to be cleverly hidden within the lyrics of songs to make it past the censors. My mum says that many people had to develop a unique ability to read between the lines to understand the protest within the lyrics of a song.

[@RavenMLee]

You nailed it brotha

[@megoz]

2 things: 1Aquarium, although not being my favourite music-vise are beyond based, to this day they still speak their shit and do stuff to fight against the retarded regime we have right now. 2. My dad actually played a ton of music (he still does but his main music journey was back in the end/fall of USSR) and he even "opened" (in quotes cause it wasn't the traditional opening act) for Гражданская оборона (Letov's band), so seeing you talk about it is very cool

[@LordAlacorn]

USSR was 16 republics, some places would get you arrested and some places would allow to play Rolling Stones on the festivals like my uncle did. After fall of USSR most of these band become extreme nationalists and supporters of current Putin regime... way to go...

[@musiclover01ization]

Great video, Coolea. It was very informative.

[@lingusdingua4889]

That x ray shit is so cool. Your videos are fun to watch and are really interesting.

[@kasranosratpour6450]

There was a band in ussr called Aria They were a rellu cool band not because they play heavy metal but because they played heavy metal in ussr

[@topwaifu2104]

Just heavy metal rip-offs, nothing of value really.

[@kasranosratpour6450]

@@topwaifu2104 well this means u have not lived in a country that government limits you from many things

[@m.retzlaff4644]

Looking firward to the GrOb video!

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

WARNING, AN ARTICLE OF A COMMENT AHEAD There was obviously a punk movement in other eastern block countries, like Yugoslavia, Poland and my country - Czechoslovakia (Czech republic and Slovakia now). The 50s were hostile against western music, just like soviet union. There was a period in the 60s, when everything was more relaxed, so western music became relatively accepted and widespread. In 1968 the Soviets invaded us, wchich was the beginning of period known as “normalisation”, return to the strict dictatorship of socialism. The 70s saw the birth of the most influential underground band - Plastic People Of The Universe, named after a Frank Zappa song, inspired by acts such as Velvet Underground, Zappa and the hippie movement. This was obviously everything the communists stood against, so they were banned from performing, recording and pretty much existing as musicians. They made illegal concerts, under the disguise of weddings and funerals, wchich were later raided, their fans were beaten and put on a list, later imprisoned. This climaxed in 1978, when the group members were imprisoned for 8 months to 2 years. Other bands from this period were Umělá Hmota (Artificial Matter/Plastic), Extempore, Atomová Mihule (Atomic Hagfish) Even after their release, they continued. At the time, punk has already taken place as the new underground movement. Notable punk bands were Psí Vojáci (Dog Soldiers) and Garage. TLDR : Plastic People Of The Universe were the shit back then in Czechoslovakia

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Best Plastic People songs in my opinion Nenávist Vola K Řeznickýmu Psu (Hatred of The Bullock Against Butcher’s Dog) Moucha V Ranním Pivě (A Fly In The Morning Beer) Eliášův Oheň (St. Elmo’s Fire) Podivuhodný Mandarin (The Wondrous Mandarin) Růže a Mrtví (Roses and The Dead) NF 811 Půlnoční Myš (Midnight Mouse) Fancovka (Francovka - a brand of balsam, wchich had alcohol in it and so it became cheap choice of liquor)

[@mybloodyvacuum]

pekinska patka is a good punk band from YU, but in here postpunk and new wave were way more popular. the punk would have peaked if it was invented during the 60s, as weve had many provocative and rebellious films during that era. those films go under genre "yugoslav black wave"

[@juicygoosy7150]

How on earth did you include a photo of Joanne stingray (wife of KINOs lead guitarist) AND the drummer for KINO but never actually showed KINO???

[@TH30guitar]

A great band is called Sektor Gaza - they aren't punk but they can be related. Found this band through the Rock n Rolla movie

[@dudosya_1239]

Well, they are partly punk. At least, many people have a strong association that they are punks. I think they weren't included because they were later than mentioned bands.

[@pudziantokox4524]

How exactly do you even make video like this not mentioning Kino?

[@Техтроника]

"Every day going farther and farther, Someone's pain is getting better. A new world keeps growing older, every fight keeps getting wilder From the world to an idea --- some soil for the dead, Christ's hammer will not stop. And that crimson girl had a gaze More honest than a steel blade. Neverending suicide for me. Neverending suicide for me. Neverending suicide..."

[@kirflaska]

Good one, would be interesting to see the same one covering the contemporary Russian punk scene. I could help you out with some info as well if you need

[@ledonutqc9250]

Please make a video on Bérurier Noir. Great vid btw!

[@STAP2011]

Great job as always, my bro! Little note, ДК (DK) band's name stands for "Дом Культуры" (House of culture / Palace of Culture)

[@rabbittank4251]

Wow! It's really surprising to see a video about russian music. Esspecially because i'm from Letov's hometown (Omsk). I like that our music have become known aboard.

[@AiKakProsto299]

то чувство, когда человек читает только Википедию

[@thedootslayer3339]

Only one clip of Kino at the end, and it might not even have been them, day ruined tbh, anyway cool vid, probably one of my favorite punk scenes tho I am a bit biased.

[@coolea]

Somehow I didn't come across much information regarding them during research, I'll have a look into them now and might revisit one day.

[@dnull]

​@@cooleathey were very influencial, however, they are more on a softer, post-punk side of spectrum. they've also gone quite mainstream and ended up masking the rebellious message behind smart lyricism.

[@thedootslayer3339]

@@dnull exactly, their lyrics and and amazing post punk instrumental set them apart, their mainstream audience was well deserved, they where even recognzied by Aquarium, with their lead Boris Grebenshikov, helping to produce their first record.

[@thedootslayer3339]

@@coolea I suggest trying to search in Russian through Google translate, I also suggest listening to Splean, using punk lyricism themes in their 2nd album, and having them remain as common theme throughout, however the instrumentals where far more resembling grunge ig (they also mentioned Kurt in some of their lyrics), early albums where incredibly unique with instruments like flute, keyboard, and others, while I do believe their uniqueness died down on their post 2010 albums, excluding the 2012 which is my personal favorite, they remained true to their punk roots in lyricism and speak out against the Russian gov and war, and are also going on tour in America soon!!!

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

@@dnull post punkj is not soft its dark

[@ascottishgamerx9728]

Long live yegor

[@Marty-z1y]

In Soviet Russia, punk rocks you

[@eoncatalyst]

Check out the bands that performed in Tam-Tam night club. That night club become a cult place for the Russian Rock music scene. Химера (Himera) is the most famous band that performed in Tam-Tam. That band was one of a kind.

[@mr__coyote3061]

if they ban hairspray, we still have water and sugar, lol

[@platannapipidae9621]

as a russian zoomer, i'd say, this is quite accurate. russian rock next? russian rock is pretty unique, because it doesn't sound as rock.

[@jessicafox2268]

Those X Ray discs are dope. I want one :D

[@achrafmaaden6263]

A video about a middle east underground scene would be cool

[@prognoz4]

PLEEAAASE do a video on the lithuanian group FOJE! It was the most influential Lithuanian band of all time, id love to see a video on it!!!

[@Melatonine1987]

Hey man, great knowledge of soviet punk! Are you somehow related to former soviet union? От души💕

[@damir5581]

Didn't know that Letov's music is interesting not only for russians because he did very hard lyrics to understand and especially to translate them. Greetings from Moscow, PEACE!

[@gigaput8953]

Честно, никогда не понимал Летова, но очень хочется начать с чего-то, чтобы вникнуть в его творчество. Как вы считаете, с какой песни или альбома стоит начать слушать Летова?

[@milo4317]

​@@gigaput8953 Альбомы "прыг-ског", "сто лет одиночества", альбомы позднего(после проекта "Егор и Опиздиневшие") периода по-типу "Зачем снятся сный","Солнцеворот"и тд

[@PunkNerd]

can you do a video on nintendocore or digital hardcore pls

[@jackisboom]

Coolea make weezer video I love weezer

[@coolea]

no

[@climaksy1659]

lmao

[@lucyfer_the_bat]

​@@cooleagood

[@alkazarblack7266]

Weezo

[@Timsturbs]

aw Coolea is too shy to make a video about his favorite band

[@hamdy-man2237]

By disappeared. Do you mean disappeared or "disappeared"?

[@bman6065]

Without The Beatles, even punk wouldn't have been the same.

[@bitya8010]

Grazhdanskaya Oborona

[@makharadzemakharadze5032]

were there any Georgian punk bands during this time?

[@artemkapro3379]

Hello author! in your video there was little information about Soviet punk. I understand very few sources in English about Soviet underground groups. And if you want, I can tell you more about them.

[@josephschosen6152]

Remember folks! Punk ain't red!

[@ДмитрийШепелёв-ы4ы]

Fun fact: soviet propaganda, trying to fight this movement, released the "documentary" called "Dances on Bones". The name is obviously referencing those illegal x-rays.

[@rem8402]

hey coolea, do you ever think you could cover industrial rock? Thanks! btw amazing video dude

[@THNDRFNGRS]

Soviet punk is anti-nomenklatura, not anti-communist. Communism is the punk rock

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

i gurantee their is atleast one song out their that is punk that was made in the ussr that is anti communist ...

[@borisbubonja]

You should consider looking into the Yugoslav music scene! Outside of the stupid war songs... and theres really interesting and unique artists who had to work around similar restrictions as those in the USSR (though much less so). Idoli, Zabranjeno Pusenje, Haustor, Pankrti, Paraf and Satan Panonski.

[@Firehusky]

8 minutes and 43 seconds, and not a single mention of the legendary Viktor Tsoi

[@KepaBedolaga]

He is more into post-punk

[@zedw8a168]

Man's just used a clip of the Yugoslav Milicija at 3:09 instead of the Soviet one 💀💀