On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The Bernes song is from 1939.
>
> What official Communists said in public and what they actually did
> are different things...Rhetoric is not reality. Actually the Soviets
> generally drove a sharp dividing line between official propaganda
> and entertainment.
Actually, there were giants in the USSR in those days. Geniuses like Shostakovich and Prokofiev. They were quite unambiguously informed that there would be a sharp dividing line driven between their heads and their shoulders if they became recidivists and ever again wrote music that Stalin couldn't whistle and Zhdanov couldn't hum.
Nobody ever found anything entertaining about "Song of the Forests" or "On Guard for Peace."
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol