https://folkways.si.edu/byelorussia-ssr-folksong/central-asia-islamica-world/music/track/smithsonian

This is a traditional folk song from the USSR. It highlights female singers, a balalaika, and an accordion. It was released in 1960 and was passed down generationally by oral teaching and memorization. I was curious to see how communism played a role in folk music, and I had found that “Folk bands were symbols of the Soviet type of socialist culture, in contrast with immoral Western mass culture and its music”. This to me states that the government did not like the folkmusic and banned it just like they had banned round-bodied chordophones. Noe, banning round-bodied chordophones only led to the creation of the balalaika and folk music had a similar path. People remembered traditional tunes and when it was safe to do so, music enthusiasts travelled the country trying to salvage any folk music knowledge they could find, “Nowadays, just a few small groups of musicologists and researchers are still visiting rural areas in order to collect and record traditional Russian tunes.” 

(https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/09/06/the_rise_and_fall_of_soviet_folknpop_music_29563.html)