The USSR was considered a reading country, and there is a lot of truth in this. Being educated, cultured, advanced was considered important. It is difficult to imagine, for example, the students of the 70s-80s in isolation from hard rock or disco music. The Soviet musical landscape was, for the most part, tasteless, colorless, and odorless. It is striking that a month after the release of a new Pink Floyd or Boney'M album in some Novosibirsk or Krasnoyarsk, these recordings sounded from open windows and discos. But how did this mechanism work so quickly and, despite distances and ideological prohibitions, widely represent the best samples of popular music in the world? And how did the system react to this? Were Nazareth or Led Zeppelin aware of their colossal popularity on the territory of 1/6 of the land mass?
