Really interesting post. The role that Science fiction began to play at this time was really cool and its interesting to see how the Soviets began to regulate this science fiction as well. There is a general trend of the Soviet government regulating a lot of the new things that were coming out around this time period, like Rock and Roll. It’s also interesting how this spread to western culture as well in spin offs.
The riots that took place as a reaction to Gorbachev’s leadership was symbolic to the disapproval of the direction of the government from Latvia and Lithuania at the time. I was unaware how serious these riots were and that they had actually created a series of casualties. What specific environmental movements did people rally behind in this time of frustration?
I wasn’t aware that the Soviets spent an entire 10 years in Afghanistan while pursuing influence into these third world countries. This displays how determined the Soviet Union was to spread themselves into third world countries. What lessons do you think the United States could have taken out of this?
Its very cool to see how Rock and Roll initially played a similar roll in the Soviet Union the way that it did with the United States. It makes sense that the Soviet government would want to control it though, especially with its slowly increasing popularity during that time. How effective was the Soviet controlled Rock and Roll?
The images that you chose are very interesting and appear to represent your post pretty well. How did the citizens react to the boycott? I assume they would be relatively disapointed from this.
It’s really interesting how western culture played a small role in this. The factor that jeans and the black market played in economics at this time brings up a really interesting point about how the market worked back then.
