The film includes interviews with veterans of the Soviet hippy movement who are filmed wearing the tattered tie dye of their youth
THE SOVIET UNION’S ideologues argued that a new human archetype would emerge under communism. The “new Soviet man”, they said, was strong, self-sacrificing and fanatical about spreading the socialist revolution. Alexander Zinoviev—whose noisy criticism of the USSR got him expelled in 1978—agreed that the regime was moulding people’s personalities. He painted “Homo Sovieticus” as a flag-waving, double-thinking dolt, unwilling to take his fate into his own hands.
Many paid dearly for their disobedience. One teenager was sent to a psychiatric hospital after his mother complained that he was listening to “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” on repeat. There he was subjected to “insulin shock therapy”: ie, injected with insulin to trigger comas and convulsions which were thought, wrongly, to jolt patients out of mental illnesses. Others had their long hair cut by force or were harassed by other citizens.
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