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Boris Grebenshchikov: Culture and protest in Russia

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The Russian Bob Dylan

You have always had a very rebellious streak from an early age. You studied mathematics at the University of Leningrad as it was then, St Petersburg. So where's that rebellious streak now? Has it gone? I never saw it as rebellious. I was just behaving normal. But I mean, you obviously were pushing the boundaries then. Don't they need to be pushed now? Because you're being confronted with the same authoritarianism that you were then. That's what I'm doing. It's an illusion and it never works. If we think back about, we think back to the 60s. Do you think anything with stones or the Beatles or anybody would say that would stop the

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