Zozas and Swings – the Alternative of Permitted and Allowed During Socialism

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Pages: 243-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ZZCW3494

Abstract:

Thе article will trace the development of one of the unacceptable types of behavior and consumption during socialism. Opposing the dominant cultural model through lifestyle, vision, posture, slang of so-called zozas and swings, they are labeled as the “bourgeois remnant”. Zozas and swings can be easily defined as an informal group and subculture. Their ideology is different from the ideology of socialism. The last one does not allow the existence of groups that are not devoted to the cause of the Party, enthusiastic young builders of a bright future. Everyone who is found as an exception is a subject to re-education.

Keywords:

zozas; swings; caricature; subculture; socialism

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