Just like John Lennon or Elton John, in 1970s David Bowie was an iconic fig­ure of the West­ern music scene. Nick­named Chameleon of Pop for his flam­boy­ant out­fits, pale make up and eccen­tric tunes, David Bowie made a train tour of Rus­sia, all the way from Vladi­vos­tok to Moscow, eigh­teen days in a sleeper.  Back in the days, when the Cold War was in its prime, get­ting a per­mis­sion to look behind the Iron Cur­tain was an incred­i­ble phe­nom­e­non by itself. Well, did David  enjoy him­self while in the USSR? Let’s see.

David Bowie in the Red Square, Moscow, April 1973.

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