Word: chastushki
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Boots for Masochists. More and more these days, the songsmiths of Eastern Europe are fitting socialist lyrics to capitalist tunes. A few years ago, TV and radio shows behind the Iron Curtain were dominated by the Soviet Union's decidedly square chastushki (folk songs). Today, Western songs constitute 60% of all the pop music broadcast in the Slavic countries. No wonder wary government censors have demanded that the lyrics be "put into our social context...
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