Soviet Postcards

Krug (Circle) - Not A Word About Love (1986)

Krug - You Said Believe Me (1986)

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Goodbye America, oh
Where I have never been
Take the banjo and
Play me goodbye

Your worn jeans
Became too small for me
We’ve been taught for so long
To love your forbidden fruit

Goodbye America, oh
Where I will never be

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Arkady Pogodin - In the Chayir Park (1939)

Chayir is a park in Gaspra, Crimea

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I’ll Hop Off At a Distant Station (На дальней станции сойду)

So I love this song and it’s, as they say now, a big mood. To hop off in the middle of nowhere, to stride through endless fields and cornflower meadows, and not have a single worry. I can’t wait for my July vacation! I would hop on a train and go somewhere, anywhere right now.

Original version performed by Gennady Belov, as featured in “A Secret Shared” movie (1978)

A later rendition by “Plamya”

And a much later, post-Soviet rendition by “Grazhdanskaya Oborona” (2002), a Russian punk-rock group. I’m a bit partial to this one because it’s the one I actually lived through.