Published 23:03 IST, September 30th 2019
Soviet soldiers dance to Britney Spears, Lady Gaga in edited videos
Soviet Soldiers danced to Britney Spears & Lady Gaga's music in videos shared on a Twitter handle named Soviet Soldiers Dancing created by a teen in the UK.
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A Twitter handle named 'soviet soldiers dancing' is presenting history with a new angle by mashing up old foot from Soviet Russia with contemporary pop songs. result is hilarious. Soviet Union has h a morbid im of cruel officers t letting people drink coffee or wear jeans or worse still, mass murder and Cherbyl. This dark memory has been shown in a positive light in Twitter videos.
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History of Soviet Dancing
account posts edited videos and clips of soldiers in USSR dancing or performing at height of former regime. Soviet choir singers and dancers were a highlight of cultural herit of USSR that tried to create a strong national identity by removing "Western" influences from its mainstream culture. Yet after globalization, influence of West can longer be resisted, as is evident by fate of some of videos originating from time. re were two major categories of Soviet dances, as per accounts. first was Soviet ballroom dance in which competitions in were held in three dance categories: Standard dances, Latin dances, and Soviet dances. second category is Alexandrov Ensemble which is an official army choir of Russian armed forces. ensemble consisted of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble.
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creator of video is a teen from UK
Media reports found that creator of video is a teen who edits soundtrack of videos and inste of original music, ds pop songs to background. teen belongs to UK who said to media in an interview that he was studying 20th century Russia for his History examination when he happened to chance across videos of dancing soviet soldiers online. That's when he came up with idea. Have a look at some of videos:
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16:33 IST, September 30th 2019