So, when they were given the chance to play in Russia, after that nation's isolationism had finally started to soften a bit, they took the event seriously.
The harsh reality of the Soviet Union was very real in their minds throughout their entire lives. The Scorpions were formed in Hanover, a city in West Germany, and grew up in the metaphorical shadow of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was built to separate the two sides, with people on the western side living under the liberal political systems of Europe and those on the eastern side living under the harsh authoritarian control of the Soviets. The western parts of the country went to Western influence, while the eastern went to Russia. When World War II ended, the Allied nations and Russia divvied up sections of the defeated Nazi Germany. The period of conflict gave the Soviets the opportunity to overtake many parts of Europe, and the Soviet Union expanded dramatically. The Germans were initially the aggressors, but once engaged in conflict, the Soviets did not relent. This went beyond actual political saboteurs and included anyone who might harbor dissident ideas.ĭuring World War II (1939–1945), Russia fought Nazi Germany.
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Stalin viciously cracked down on anyone he thought might oppose his rule.
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Though the Soviet Union was ostensibly composed of free bodies operating under the shared ideological banner of socialism, the truth was that all of it was tightly controlled from Moscow. The already authoritarian control became even more so. In 1924, Joseph Stalin took over control of the Soviet Union.
In 1922, Soviet Russia became the Soviet Union after it officially unified with the Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian Republics. In 1917 the Bolsheviks overthrew the existing government in Russia in an event called the October Revolution. This is confusing stuff for those not familiar with the time the song was written, so to put all of this in context we'll need a (very condensed) history lesson. The Berlin Wall didn't come down until a few months after the song was written, though, and the inspiration came in Russia, not in Germany. The music video plays to this interpretation, with footage of the Berlin Wall being dismantled. The "Wind of Change" that was blowing was the fall of the Soviet Union, which is what the song is about, but when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, the song became the unofficial anthem for the German Reunification, an event that politically lasted from the fall Wall to the official reunification on Octo(The Scorpions are a German band).
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