Now amusing: Music to be banned from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Confession: I myself failed to notice the Village People’s violence, but the censors must know better. Apparently this list was circulated among the Communist Party’s higher-ups just before the Perestroika era.

Punk, sex and religious obstructionism: A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
Source: Thanks to Connor Ellington for the above link.

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