"He cited recommendations from an infamous Soviet-era psychiatric hospital that said heavy metal music had an "ideologically destructive" effect on young people."
"any officials who tried to interfere would get a "punch in the face."
Hmm maybe the soviets were right

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: Officials in Belgorod, a town some 400 miles south of Moscow, have
: written to local café, club and restaurant owners asking them
: to refuse to host heavy metal concerts.
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: "I am not familiar with such music myself but we have been
: asked to head off any satanic activity," a local official,
: Vladimir Shatilo, told the daily Kommersant newspaper.
:
: "The parents of youngsters who attended such events would
: never forgive us for (allowing) the performances of people
: interested in satanic ideology," added another official. He
: cited recommendations from an infamous Soviet-era psychiatric
: hospital that said heavy metal music had an "ideologically
: destructive" effect on young people.
:
: Some local club owners appeared unlikely to comply. One of them,
: Oleg Proskokov, told the same newspaper that he planned to hold
: a number of rock events in the near future and that any
: officials who tried to interfere would get a "punch in the
: face."
:
: Alexander Naumenko, the lead singer in a local rock group, said
: the campaign reminded him of the "worst aspects of the
: Soviet system" when Communist party officials sought to
: tightly control the kind of music people could listen or dance
: to in public.
:
: Belgorod has previously introduced fines for public swearing,
: restricting the number of people on the town's dance floors, and
: for waging a campaign against Valentine's Day.
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