It seems like atleast some people here don't know the meaning of what proletariat is... the proletariat is people who don't offer anything else than their manpower. Anyway I also think that this song is about the soviet union, and i agree with what vacantfademe wrote...but at first i didn't understand "the cotton candy coated teeth"... but after a while it seems obvious for me [since i think it's about soviet] that he is referring to all the cotton fields that they forced people to set up to make the country become more self-supporting around the aral lake (i think that it is the english name for it, (im swedish)) that has made the lake totally drain out... so what use to be the third biggest lake in the world is today more like a puddle in comparison.
It seems like atleast some people here don't know the meaning of what proletariat is... the proletariat is people who don't offer anything else than their manpower. Anyway I also think that this song is about the soviet union, and i agree with what vacantfademe wrote...but at first i didn't understand "the cotton candy coated teeth"... but after a while it seems obvious for me [since i think it's about soviet] that he is referring to all the cotton fields that they forced people to set up to make the country become more self-supporting around the aral lake (i think that it is the english name for it, (im swedish)) that has made the lake totally drain out... so what use to be the third biggest lake in the world is today more like a puddle in comparison.