Trololo Revisited: It's a Soviet Thing; We Wouldn't Understand
March 20, 2010 /

A few days ago I posted Trololo, a seemingly-daffy little number sung for 2 1/2 minutes by a helmet-haired, smiling goof of a man, a song with no words whatever. Apparently, while it strikes us as…let’s be charitable here, “odd”…it’s not that unusual a thing, at least if you lived in the USSR in the 1960s.
Then again, if you lived in the USSR in the 1960s, neighbors suddenly disappearing wasn’t that an unusual thing, either.
Eduard Khil speaks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRefK6OyvHU
I had heard elsewhere that the original lyrics were about a cowboy and his wife but were censored, but writing the song to be sung without words makes a little more sense.