[Jeff Chandler]

That’s not what that song was about...

I didn't say it was.

1.) They recorded a whimsical Beach Boy-esque number about a prison state. Imagine Benny Goodman playing a dance tune about Nazi Germany?

2.) They later hopped on the Peace Train, like good little useful idiots.

[Borges]

They weren’t glorifying the Soviet system. It was a comic trifle. People who lived in Nazi Germany in the 30s played a part in bringing the Nazis to power. In the late 60s, none of the young Russian girls they were singing about in that song had that sort of culpability. It’s really a deeply silly argument.

[dead]

Imagine Bing Crosby producing a comedy about a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. He did and it was very funny.

[PLMerite]

“Imagine Benny Goodman playing a dance tune about Nazi Germany?”

“Begin the Regime”? I know, Cole Porter, Artie Shaw.