Back in the late '80s at a club here in San Diego, I watched this one band from the USSR that blew me away. I can't recall their name but the style of music was, as best as I can describe it, psycho-billy music (like The Cramps and Rev. Horton Heat). They all wore black suits and had these freakish pompador wigs on and did nothing but old R&B and rockibilly covers. They were pretty big on the alternative music scene in the late '80s and early '90s but for the life of me, can't recall their name.
Another really cool Russian band was one called Lenny and the Cosmonauts that played nothing but surf music in the Dick Dale and Ventures style.
Then on the completely other side of the spectrum is Autograph, which has to be one, if not THE, worst band that ever existed. Why couldn't you guys send them to the gulags when you had the chance? You would have done the world a favor and at the same time find a new and cruel punishment for the gulag inmates.
Ack-Ack