Role of Culture Under Soviet Occupation
The Singing Revolution Educational Content • 7m 3s
Learn how Shakespeare’s play Hamlet was turned into a message of hope for a free Estonia…right under the eyes of Soviet authorities. When government controls schools, television, radio and the print press, double entendre in the arts becomes a principal pipeline of truth.
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