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.)

  • @Munrock
    7•1 year ago

    Try contacting the lady that leads Silenzium Strings. She’s a 4th generation communist party member, responsible for this theory channel, for bringing us this banging arrangement of The Battle Is Going Again (which I bet everyone here has already heard), but more pertinent to your question is this music video of their cover of Kino’s Peremen. The very song Gorby used to push his shit, being played by an outspokenly Communist group with a very Communist message in the music video.

    100% sure that if you can get in touch with her she’d have loads of sources.

    edit: changed links to proxies

    • @GloriousDoubleK
      5•1 year ago

      …Im never boycotting Russian culture. That was beautiful and I would take off work to see them perform if they ever went on tour in America.

  • @Dunecat
    4•1 year ago

    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”.