Rockin’ in the Ukraine

Fellows Fall 2000

By Julia Barton

June 01, 2009

UKRAINE, January 24, 2001 -- In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, rock musicians were on the cutting edge. They were rebels in a repressive society and they offered teenagers an exciting alternative to Marx and Lenin. In fact, rock music was outlawed. Today, in the nations that used to make up the Soviet Union, rock music is legal. But it may have lost a little something. Rock bands don't shake things up the way they used to in eastern Europe. Correspondent Julia Barton tells us about one group that's trying to buck the post-Communist trend.