The California girl who defined underground Russian punk rock and became a KGB 'enemy of the state'

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The California girl who defined underground Russian punk rock and became a KGB 'enemy of the state'



At the height of the Cold War in 1984, a quintessential blonde southern California club girl left to spend a week in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was a week that would not only transform her life, but shape the Russian rock scene and bring its style and sounds to the United States.

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