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8. Hello, Klaus

Wind of Change

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The Music of the Scorpions

It was illegal to buy their music, but all across the soviet union, young people partook. On that trip in 88, the k g b followed them everywhere. Klaus said at one point they came back to their hotel to find that their rooms had been ransacked,. And, and what do you think they were looking for? "Just coming and playing this music was itself a political act," he says.

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