Music: Keeping the Comrades Warm

Rock rolls in on the air waves, and the Soviets hear it their way

Show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south

Take me to your daddy 's farm

Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out

Come and keep your comrade warm.

—John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The Beatles never made it to the Soviet Union. Nor has the "White album" ever been available there officially. This does not mean, however, that a Soviet citizen under the age of 30 has not heard Back in the U.S.S.R., with its wicked inversion of some old Chuck Berry...

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