"Western rock culture has debunked Marxist-Leninist assumptions about the state’s ability to control it’s citizens. Across more than eight thousand miles of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, from the cusp of the Berlin Wall to the dockyards of Vladivostok, three generations of young socialists, who should have been bonded by the liturgy of Marx and Lenin, have instead found common ground in the music of the Rolling Stones and The Beatles"
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Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music In Eastern Europe by Timothy Ryback
There is truth to the statement that music will save the world.
I found this book by chance when i needed to save my brain from boredom at the library.