Russian prog

Speaking of the ancient era, there were tricky tunes like this one: 

There's one of the greatest things the USSR did. The pre-1917 Russian state had around 75% of peasantry. The Soviet power took all those uneducated illiterate people and de facto made them the nobility, 'cause, for example, neither Tolstoy nor Dostoyevsky intended their literary works to be read for peasants or lower classes. Here, at the Soviet schools, former peasants, current peasants, children of the peasants studied War And Piece with all those pages in French translated below on the page. The former noblemen had en masse proved their arrogance, ignorance and other bad features - so, God (or, if you like, fate) swapped the ruling classes a bit. Those who had been previously nothing, became... well, not everything, not quite the ruling class, but the middle class indeed. Engineer was the most popular and widespread and common Soviet profession. Most of them certainly came to the cities from the villages and towns. 

I tend to go off-topic, I agree. 

Anyway, there was a 1987 pop song called "I see my village in my dreams". Or so, I'm not a professional interpreter, after all.  HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Soviet citizens saw themselves in this song: