Performance at Novosibirsk rock festival under Adolf Hitler name

In 1987 Letov was invited to perform at the Novosibirsk rock festival. “We weren’t even going to play”, Letov said, “but Zvuki Mu didn’t come and Murzin suggested that we play instead.”. After all, he played a set with his friends Oleg and Evgeny Lischenko (from the local band Pik Klakson) under the deliberately provocative name Адольф Гитлер (Adolf Hitler), which would be released on CD in 2016. When Letov returned home, he found out the authorities were going to put him to a mental ward again. He immediately left the city with his then-partner, the fellow Siberian songwriter Yanka Dyagileva , and spent the entire year in hiding, hitch-hiking across the country until the prosecution was stopped in December 1987 with the help of Letov’s relatives.