Russian songs during the 1980s?

In soviet 1980's was popular rock. And i think there no music vids with subtitles.

Here links on hits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Pompilius_(b...

1) Nautilus pompilius- Good bye,America! (text on yt page in description)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MksZvcB9A&feature...

2) Nautilus pompilius-Я хочу быть с тобой( I want to be with you).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKD-9rGVak4&feature...

3) Nautilus pompilius- Скованные одной цепью

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoClhCA5OG8

I like songs of this singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi

4) "Kino" Victor Tsoi- Звезда по имени Солнце

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpy6PQJpXE

5) "Кино" Цой- Группа крови

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUUTE58nDQ&feature...

6) "Кино" Цой -Хочу перемен

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dpPdbnTHA&feature...

7) "Кино" Цой- Кончится лето

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qMiavIUoI&feature...

8) An other band "Машина Времени" (The Time Machine), song Поворот-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHF9UN5ZxNg&feature...

80s Russian Music

The previous answer gives you a perfect example of the Soviet anti-war song of the 1960s "Do the Russians want a war? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCwf6dEzLMg

You should keep in mind that the Soviet propaganda was controlled and conducted by the state which tried to avoid direct references to the possible nuclear war as disturbing issue that would lead too the population's anxiety and angst. Generally speaking the Soviet propaganda was pro-peace (and used adequate images) rather than being anti-war.For example, contrary to the Western anti-war practice, the Soviet propaganda almost never used a mushroom-like image of the nuclear explosion.

The same applies to the Soviet songs which used metaphors of peace rather than scaring people with possible consequences of the nuclear conflict. The following song (of about 1982) "Grass by my house" (music group "Zemlyane") is an example of this kind of aesthetics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2seJEwKPx7s

P.S. Shortly speaking it's a song of a cosmonaut who is dreaming of the grass by his house and of the Earth which is "the place for all of us" during his space flight .

P.P.S. If you are interested in unofficial point of view expressed in lyrics then the best place to start from are song-writers Vladimir Vysotsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulat_Okudzhava and other Soviet "bards" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_(Soviet_Union) .

There are tons of literature on this kind of Soviet music so you should find something on your topic as well. Good luck!

- In 80s? Seriously? I was born in 80s and do perfectly remember my childhood in USSR (Michael Jackson, movies with Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Chuck Norris, Bruce Li, Coca-Cola, 'Star Wars' and millions of other american and pro-american things). Well, contrary anti-soviet propaganda you wouldn't find a lot of anti-american propaganda. Moreover, I can assure you, that many people started to hate the USA AFTER the collapse of the USSR. So such songs arose after that as well.

Soviet Union was a multinational superpower. Communists did continuously make people believe, that there is no bad nation in the world, only some part of a particular nation can be an "enemy" - "Upper class ". Soviet people were rising on beliefs, that everyone in the world is equal and deserves to be happy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmYynSkcRg

- This was a part of Internationalism, if you like it more - let's call it first try of Multiculturalism.

In soviet songs there were rather "abstract enemies", like, "if someone only dare to invade the USSR again - we'll show you our might!" But no names!

Sometimes, people were running into the anti-american propaganda in other countries, which, in fact, was very rough, something like these:

http://cmex29.ru/uploads/posts/2010-09/1285272946_...

- I guess, you wouldn't need explanations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAeK-UAuyUQ&feature...

From my point of view, soviets were much more "nice":

http://gorod.tomsk.ru/2007/jul/anti_usa4.jpg

http://gorod.tomsk.ru/2007/jul/anti_usa17.gif

http://gorod.tomsk.ru/2007/jul/anti_usa43.jpg

These things (links) are from 50s-70s, but there was nothing more than that in 80s - even vice versa, because americans started to make a big contribution into a fall of USSR. Gorbachev was very good paid... for his part with all this so-called "democratization and westernization of the USSR" - anomie and debauchery (american porno arose in USSR in 80s btw), drugs, alcoholism etc.

Many soviet militaries was noticing CIA agents, who turned KGB headquarters into a drop-in center, countless times...

For the God's sake, where was this anti-american propaganda? - it's a bullshit.

@thezaylady

- "AN, I'm not so much looking for "anti-american" songs as simply just songs expressing views of what was going on at the time. You obviously spent a lot of time writing all that information, and it's interesting hearing your point of view, but I wished you either stuck to the subject of songs, or saved yourself the trouble because you didn't have an answer."

- I get it, you obviously want a simple answer, but if I answered you simply: "there was no songs about the Cold war or anti-american/anti-west/etc. propaganda in songs, movies etc." you wouldn't understand the reason why there was no such a stuff, and this answer could have been useless.

I described you the main reason - the Soviet state didn't allow the hatred between peoples. So, songs, movies or whatever, - you wouldn't find them, especially from 80s. Unless some fakes, maybe...

Song by the "Zemlyane" is not about the Cold war either, just the song about a kosmonaut/astronaut.

cold war hysteria were more typical for the west than for ussr. the only song appurtenant to that subject that comes to my mind is "Хотят ли русские войны" ("Do Russians want the war?") but it's 1960s