
Twitter is mostly an awful website that polarizes its users into divisive echo chambers of misinformation, rewards toxic behavior and commodifies identity for the benefit of big companies. But then again, it also has given us Soviet Soldiers Dancing, so it’s not all bad.
Oh, what’s that? You’re not familiar with Soviet Soldiers Dancing? Well, comrade, lace up your dancing shoes.
read my mind – the killers pic.twitter.com/hxKeohw2oK
— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) September 18, 2019
take me out – franz ferdinand pic.twitter.com/PnrDwBuYJs
— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) September 8, 2019
The concept is simple but, like so many genius stunt accounts before, incredibly gratifying and seemingly endless in possible application. Old archived footage of USSR soldiers put to bops new and old doesn’t sound all that enticing on paper, but it’s absolute magic in execution.
u can’t touch this – mc hammer pic.twitter.com/cB1qSQ8UUp
— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) September 17, 2019
pumped up kicks – foster the people pic.twitter.com/KHOpYfeLUr
— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) September 18, 2019
A few things become immediately clear while perusing the videos on the account. For one, whatever your feelings on Karl Marx, it is absolutely undeniable that whatever was going on over in Soviet Russia was producing some world-class dancers. Two: “Toxic” was Britney’s best song.
toxic – britney spears pic.twitter.com/0JiaHWfh9Q
— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) September 11, 2019
Have fun trying to tear yourself away from this account. In the USA, we dance to songs. In Soviet Russia, songs dance to whoever’s dancing.