I’m fairly confident in my theory here, his music was demented by capitalists. The prime example of such ignorance is the horrible 7 minute “documentary” “Who is Viktor Tsoi?” on Youtube. The whole thing is fueled by the idea that every artist in the Soviet Union was some raging anticomunist and thats why they were popular. It even claims that koryo-saram people were discriminated against which is ridiculous and literally made up by the guy with no source. Gorby used some of his songs to try to justify his horrible policies. (Literally the whole video is his Wikipedia article with added anticommunist unsourced bullshit added.) Either way, I want to collect some sources to use to counter this bullshit. So please send anything you have. I know finding stuff about Kino and Tsoi is hard sometimes so anything is appreciated. (Also even the wiki says “…the band’s message to the public was not overly or overtly political, except for the recurring theme of freedom.” The freedom theme is about social freedom too so like shut the fuck up.)
It certainly was and is being used to convey an anti-communist message - as was evidenced by this summer’s exhibition in Moscow. As for Viktor himself and his actual views, I do not have any real evidence pointing either way. But I would imagine that words from the song “Нам с тобой” (Black Album, 1991) might be close enough: “Мне не нравилось то, что здесь было - мне не нравится то, что здесь есть”.