Gulag is the government agency that ran the penal labour camps in Soviet Union. In a vain attempt to purify the socialist ideology, Stalin thought of correcting the so-called imperfections by starving people in the outskirts of Soviet Union to death (among other war crimes committed that were not exclusive to Communism at that time, despite what many people may believe). Many concentration camps were filled with those people snatched from their homeland of Eastern Europe, better known as the Eastern or the Soviet Bloc. It was a tormented region that didn't share the feigned glamour of Soviet Russia. "Orkestar" is of course a "band" in Eastern European folk culture. If you listen to the song, you put them all together and find that it's perhaps a Balkan dirge to those who perished in the Gulags at that time.
Gulag is the government agency that ran the penal labour camps in Soviet Union. In a vain attempt to purify the socialist ideology, Stalin thought of correcting the so-called imperfections by starving people in the outskirts of Soviet Union to death (among other war crimes committed that were not exclusive to Communism at that time, despite what many people may believe). Many concentration camps were filled with those people snatched from their homeland of Eastern Europe, better known as the Eastern or the Soviet Bloc. It was a tormented region that didn't share the feigned glamour of Soviet Russia. "Orkestar" is of course a "band" in Eastern European folk culture. If you listen to the song, you put them all together and find that it's perhaps a Balkan dirge to those who perished in the Gulags at that time.