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“…It’s fashionable now to say that the ’sovok’ — the Soviet era — was undermined by the fall of oil prices in the 1980s. I’m convinced that even before that there was a mass falling of corks from the ears of the young. Young Soviet brains were cleared by Western rock music. Jimi Hendrix, with his screaming Fender Stratocaster, unknowingly probably did more to demolish the Soviet mentality than even Solzhenitsyn and his ‘Archipelago’…” Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Sorokin is one of the most popular writers and dramatists in modern Russian literature. This article first appeared on Sorokin’s Web site, srkn.ru. Translated by the IHT (International Herald Tribune).

Read entire March 10 NY Times article: On Hearing ‘Whole Lotta Love’ for the First Time in Moscow

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