Konrad Sartorius
Banned
Your challenge is to create a Soviet version of the counter-culture movement or some sort of an alternative counterculture group. What would their values be and how would the Soviet state respond
or maybe section them under the Soviet equivalent of the mental health actThe Soviet government would undoubtedly throw them in gulags or execute them,
or maybe section them under the Soviet equivalent of the mental health act
There is one article showing an interesting relationship between the inhabitants of the era of Leonid Brezhnev and the Hippy movement.Your challenge is to create a Soviet version of the counter-culture movement or some sort of an alternative counterculture group. What would their values be and how would the Soviet state respond
And not just the richer countries of eastern Europe, youth opposition could rise in smaller Soviet cities that the system has a class of 'professionals' who tell the rest of us what to do. In fact, this is a trait shared by both socialist and capitalist economies.. . . sort of liberalization you see in the Prague Spring . . .
As for the "true" hippies, then here is also an interesting story. Let's start with the fact that the Soviet man in the street had little idea what it was. In the magazine "Crocodile" they drew caricatures, the propaganda branded them as "Bourgeois Degenerates", but no one really saw them. If the music of Beatles could be heard with a grief in half, then to see the hippies is like seeing Brigitte Bordeaux in a Soviet store (something incredible but beautiful).Your challenge is to create a Soviet version of the counter-culture movement or some sort of an alternative counterculture group. What would their values be and how would the Soviet state respond