WI: The Soviet Union participates in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987

Not many time ago it was revealed that the Soviet Union planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brussels in 1987.
By that time it was a contest where communist countries (excepting Yugoslavia) did not participate because of many reasons, but one of them was purely cultural (communist block rejected typical Western pop music).
At the end, the Soviet government decided that the participation in such 'Western' event was 'too radical'. What if they would have finally participated? And even won it (= meaning that ESC 1988 would have been in communist Moscow, with Céline Dion singing there).
 
What ever happens, I find it very unlikely the Soviets would win it, for political reasons. Never mind the quality of their entry. They really wouldn't have a voting bloc to go for them, the way Russia has today.

Sure Finland would give them 8 or 6 - anything less would cause problems with the Soviet embassy, and anything more would not be prudent in the eyes of the West. But not many others would make the statement of giving the USSR any significant points.

(The 1987 ESC had one of the best Finnish entries of all time,Vicky Rosti's Sata salamaa, which was only fifteenth. Could the Soviet entry beat even this?;))
 
Just thought I bring this back up to say that I have heard the entry which I think would have been sent, and it's awful, bound to be a nil pointer.......
 
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