too bad you dont know
but what you wrote sounds very interesting
how does something like "singing the ballad of ho chi minh at a beach near leningrad" come about?

living in the germany of today, one constantly is being told that the "east" was scorned and shunned by "western" intellectuals, artists and the left in general at least as of 1968

now, i dont believe that to be entirely true as for example maccoll played at the "festival des politischen liedes" in berlin as late as 1988 (anywhere information about that?)

but its hard to come by facts how things like these actually worked


so i would be really interested in how you wound up on that beach near leningrad