There was a period of time before the whole East - West thing froze solid again, and after that original coldness had started to thaw out, that it seemed like Western Europe / USA and Russia / USSR would be friends. It was Mikhail Gorbachev who really wanted to be our friend and started the unthawing, or perhaps more accurately he wanted his country to be less poor and stuck in the 1950s. So, what you ask, has this got to do with music? Well, for much of the so-called Cold Wa