This song is definitely about cold war.
First of all -- the video. A counfused guy dressed formally, looking for evidences (spy) while dancing with black-dressed people (danger of death by missile crisis), trying to fix some techonological equipment to play some tapes (tech race during cold war).
It's all about time... time... time... who gets first to space? who gets first to moon? who travels faster?. The sound of trains at 1:20 and Sputnik sattelite at 1:30 makes me absolutely sure. Ofcourse, that remains always a personal opinion...
Thus the song starts dynamicaly (beggining of cold war after USA bombing Japan), during the middle becomes more "pathetic" (Kruschev's-Brezhnev's Era) and at the ending becomes again dynamicaly just like in the beggining (War in Afghanistan, Perestroika, Dissolution of USSR...).
This song is definitely about cold war. First of all -- the video. A counfused guy dressed formally, looking for evidences (spy) while dancing with black-dressed people (danger of death by missile crisis), trying to fix some techonological equipment to play some tapes (tech race during cold war). It's all about time... time... time... who gets first to space? who gets first to moon? who travels faster?. The sound of trains at 1:20 and Sputnik sattelite at 1:30 makes me absolutely sure. Ofcourse, that remains always a personal opinion...
Thus the song starts dynamicaly (beggining of cold war after USA bombing Japan), during the middle becomes more "pathetic" (Kruschev's-Brezhnev's Era) and at the ending becomes again dynamicaly just like in the beggining (War in Afghanistan, Perestroika, Dissolution of USSR...).