DocuFilm on the History of Soviet Techno Scheduled for Release This Year
The 1980s were an interesting period in the history of Russia, which back then was part of the communist superpower nation called the Soviet Union. After being called an “evil empire” by its longtime rival the United States in the early part of the decade, the latter half of the decade saw the country open up more to the West, thanks to the policies of openness (glasnost and perestroika) of its leader Mikhail Gorbachev. That openness eventually led to the collapse of communism in the Eastern bloc by the late 1980s, culminating in the later collapse of the Soviet Union itself by 1991.
But going back to the glasnost and perestroika era in the Soviet Union, we find a fitting period for techno to find its way into the depth of the Iron Curtain. How that came to be was something that was previously unknown, nut an upcoming documentary film intends to fill the missing pieces of the history.
