Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Asalam Alaikum, Comrades!! (how did I forget to say that?? I was so scatterbrained the day I filmed!!) Ever hear that the Soviets banned anything fun? Music, fun clothes, DANCING???
Let's talk about WHY! (if that's even something they did)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:15 What is the Charleston? (And why do i like it?)
04:38 The context of dance in the Soviet Union
12:13 Spies on the dancefloor! And the flapper
17:24 The American moral panic
19:34 Speech from Supreme Leader Dusya
19:51 The Soviet Options
20:52 Contemporary Comparisons
23:03 "Hipsters" and final remarks
25:54 Personal Yapping Time!

Links Mentioned:
Book Text (use translate) "Man and Woman: Body, Fashion, Culture. USSR"
https://www.e-reading.life/bookreader.php/1061848/muzhchina-i-zhenschina-telo-moda-kultura-sssr-ottepel.html

Article "Disease of the Century": Dances That Were Banned in the USSR
weekend-rambler-ru.turbopages.org/weekend.rambler.ru/s/read/47287901-bolezn-veka-tantsy-kotorye-zapreschali-v-sssr

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