Shona Laing: Soviet Snow (1987)

Arkady:

"Radiation over Red Square" and "fear of freezing in the Soviet Snow"? This song can only be about Chernobyl.

"Creeping on to cross Roman Roads..." Remember how terrified Europe was of the fallout?

a classic. really takes me back. thanks.

Use to dance to this song at Neo in Chicago late 80's. Great song!

awesome post! Shona sounds amazing in this song! Her album South was one of the best of the 80's in my ever so humble option! great to see the video again (even though it kind of sucks)!

Great voice.

"We need something to keep the chill from freezing our own Free Will

We're teasing like children
Love is the one solution"

It's been at least 20 years since I've heard this song. Profound words.

I agree...but don't knock Siouxsie. We like her too.

I love this song and vid.

But, what does it mean? I went to the Piskarov wall in 1992, in St. Petersburg, though my pilgrimage was to 'Leningrad', to kneel at the graves of those who stopped the Nazis, buried there in nearly two hundred mounds of dead, and I know that those were only few of those who died there, stopping the Nazis.

I miss the Soviet Union. Capitalism needs the opposition. It isn't as though Marxism works as much as unrestrained Capitalism needs...opposition.

Wow, WDRE, that takes me back...the screech..of the week