Khochu peremen

Kino and their lead singer Viktor Tsoi had previously been part of the underground rock movement in the Soviet Union.

The film, which became a cult classic, promoted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika political, social and economic reforms.

[2] The film became a symbol of the rapid changes made in Gorbachev's USSR and brought Kino a mass audience for the first time.

Kino performed the song in June 1990 in front of 62,000 people at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow during one of the band's first major gigs.

[4] Such is the influence of the song that Gorbachev later recalled being inspired by it when he assembled his new pro-reform politburo after coming to power following the death of Konstantin Chernenko.

Gorbachev must have been mistaken in this as Chernenko died on 10 March 1985, and "khochu peremen" was not performed publicly until the summer of 1986.