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a clip from the 2008 Russian film “Stilyagi“ (Стиляги) aka “Hipsters“ or “Boogie Bones“ by Valery Todorovsky.. The musical is a salute to the underground culture of jump jazz, hipster slang, and “epotage“ fashions that sprung up in 1950s Soviet Union. Branded as “decadent, amoral, and corupted by Western capitalist influences“ by the Communist Party, participants faced social and official disapproval and supression. It is now recognized as the groundbreaking youth counterculture of the period, similar to the “rockabilly/greaser“ culture in the West.
