This Is Fun: Artists Banned from Soviet Radio

Everyone knows that music carries all sorts of power to influence the masses, so it should comes as no surprise that the Soviets had an official do-not-play list for radio stations.  Here’s the original document.

Translated, we get this.

Notice that Julio Iglesias’ music is highlighted as “neofacism.”  And the Village People’s music was “violent?”

The full story at Boing Boing with links to the original Twitter account and Wikipedia.