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Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199)

Cold War Conversations - "vivid & compelling" The NY Times

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How Did the Idea of Bringing Their Music to the US Come About?

In russia, everybody worked. The bands were amateurs and it wasn't their official job. Most of them would take the jobs at the bottom of the ring which paid the least amount but that you didn't have to do every day. Boris was a night watchman, ad he had to work 24 hours every seven days. O victor, many of the hmusicians, worked at a building shoveling coal to heat the apartment building. It was later nicknamed camchaka. Again, could work 24 hours and then have six or seven days off. Uri was working in some boiler place, again, where he was doing something, but he had towork more days a week

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