https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktiONWfSL48
Leningrad again, back in form with some interesting cinematography: we replay a great disaster, in reverse, rewinding to discover its origins...


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"We the people love all sorts of junk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSgizzkkbh0

... whenever I wonder just WTF is going on with the Old Country, it's nice to be reminded that some of the problems they face are universal.

(prior mentions:
 [A](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10382/)
[B](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10419/))


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In Soviet Russia, girl meets boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajCFMlYABo
(and here instead of [comrades in legwarmers](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10324/) we have comrades in recitals)

A little more urban than either the previous time we saw [Silenzium](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10318/), or their last tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1Y88n1Uog

But I guess we really should have expected another A.Пахмутова composition after their full-on Young Pioneer rendition of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnCo2SKafU

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Judging by the several examples on YT like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY7ZA_wCIX8
«Выпускной Клип 2014 Днепропетровск школа 57»

[Zveri's](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-3/10757/) song has become a school-leaving anthem, somewhat analogous to "No more pencils/No more books".

Seems appropriate enough for the context in which I heard it today: a cabaret-style radio report on the California exit petition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIyRLdnu2ps

[Edit: I'd misremembered 'pencils' as 'rulers']


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it's not my 'zik, so I have no clue if:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kND_4ggYaqs
might ever be as much of a "New Year's Hit" as the title brags, but the video track confirms that not only I, but also native speakers, have noticed a fair amount of similarity between themes in western [breakdance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0#t=125) and in eastern [dances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8zIfaNHiB0#t=170) of [peasant origin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-fkZ-0Blw#t=180); the latter half mixes these tropes nicely.

(prior mentions: [A](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10283/) [B](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10318/))