User:Haemmerli/sandbox

Soviet Hippies (Nõukogude hipid) is a 2017 Estonian documentary film directed by Terje Toomistu. It reconstructs the phenomenon of a hippy underground in the Soviet Union with archival materials and by following some of its survivors. Hippies started to appear in the Soviet Union in 1966. In 1971 the soviet authorities started a wave of repression against the hippies.

Plot
The film follows the traces of the hippy underground in the Soviet Union, that was fist influenced mainly by the west. But then it stated to become an original counter culture. On the 1st of June Hippies were protesting in Moscow against the Vietnam War believing they were in line with official ideology. Everybody was arrested by the secrect service KGB. Then followed a period of systematic repression. The leaders were jailed or sent to psychiatric institutions. This drove the Soviet hippies more underground.