Hot Buns (Bublichki) (1928)
Description: Bublichki (Hot Buns, or Bagels) was the most notorious of the underground songs of the NEP era. In stark opposition to the bright visions of communism that the regime was trying to promote, the song wallows in physical and figurative dirt hitting rather too close to home, i.e. the realities of NEP street life. For this it was banned in the USSR until the late 1980 s; but it was passed down by word of mouth for decades, and reached the present in many different forms.