1982
The unexpected broadcasting of Swan Lake came to symbolise the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union
In the USSR, on the evening of 10 November, the Day of the Soviet Army, a concert of Soviet stage stars was always shown on television. But in 1982 the concert was cancelled. Instead, Swan Lake was shown on television. Ordinary people realised that something was wrong. Brezhnev’s death was announced much later. It was then repeated many times in the Soviet Union. We want to restart the mechanism of the »death of the Soviet Union«. Putin and Lukashenko terrorised their countries and then started a war in Ukraine.