#soviet punk

[raymondraccoon]

Yegor Letov

I personally think he is very handsome.

[karlachismylife]

It's genuinely sad to me that some non-Russian comrades here love and appreciate Soviet/Russian punk and post-punk more than the younger generation in my own country.

I don't even know who upsets me more, kids (actually one of them is just a couple years younger than me so it baffles me even more) who don't even know who Letov or Tsoy are, or the ones who say their songs sound shitty or make no sense. You have no idea what you're talking about, do you, you little tiktok addicted cunt.

sorry that was mean of me.

Here's a beautiful song by Yanka Dyagileva, one of the most prominent figures of the Siberian underground scene. She wasn't the most public person and her tragic early passing is riddled with conspiracies, but the most important thing about her is the raw talent in her poetry and the instantly recognizable voice.

I have never ever heard anything that could sound like soviet punk. And since similar things sometimes are evoked by much more modern music on the post soviet scene, reaching as far as to synth-pop and so many different genres across not just Russia alone, I think it's that thing we actually do carry in ourselves despite having very different views on our countries, on USSR, on our past and present.

It's that same feeling the panel apartment buildings can't help but evoke. That fucking doomer aesthetic if you wanna call it that.

It might not be the most beautiful and clean and positive thing in the world, but it feels so much more patriotic (even though I'm not and I don't think I ever will be) than whatever that hitler jugend looking lapdog popstar they're shoving down our throats is spewing. It's the March snow with black dots on its spongy surface. It's the foggy cigarette breath under yellow windows of panel houses. It's the liminal underground passage with a basking guitarist singing Letov's words that are jumping off the echoy walls.

November splin's getting to me, isn't it.

UPD. I am not touching on the contents of soviet punk/post-punk deliberately, because there's too much to unpack and we would spend the whole day here. Today is just vibes appreciating day.

[80ssovietcomrade]

Traversing the mountainscape

[free2mylife]

[visuac]

matador

[lenabobina]

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[it-isbel]

viktor click

[mourntomidnight]

Translated this via google translate, will post original in reblog.

Also fyi this image likely predates the 80s meaning it’s probably from the time before goth and that skinhead culture wasn’t appropriated by n*zis yet so the skinhead in this photo going by his features is likely black. Just a lil disclaimer.

[dyed-imp]

"Night"

The idea for this illustration came when I was listening to russian post-punk.

[valcaira]

i fucking wish people would stop putting the soviet hammer and sickle symbol on my dash. you people are disgusting.

sincerely: a tired belarusian

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

A Playlist built around #Russianpostpunk and #sovietwave

[80ssovietcomrade]

Beautiful Soviet Punks. The girl in the middle wears a Komsomol (communist youth org.) scarf and a Telnyashka (most iconic military shirt, worn by the revolutionary sailors)

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Can you make your archive available so I can look for the Russian imperialism stuff? I went on a vacation

I'm sorry but what archive?

the one the other person made? my blog archive?

and this blog is about antisemtism not ruzzism or tankies or soviet so I don't have a tag for "russian imperialism"

try

#tankie punks fuck off for tankie things

#russsian antisemitism for modern putinist russian antisemitism

#soviet antisemtism for soviet era antisemtism

[scarmille]

in the am