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At the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, the Soviet Union set up an international song contest.
It was mostly for countries behind the Iron Curtain, and it was called Intervision.
Poland, Cuba, East Germany, they all took part.
Czechoslovakia won six times.
In 1976, the crowd was so pumped for Irina Ponarovskaya that the Soviet singer gave nine on-course.
There was no phone in vote.
Not that many people had phones.
Intervision was a Soviet copy of a hugely popular Eurovision Song Contest in the West.
But it fizzled out and died, just like the USSR.
Except, on Saturday in Moscow, Vladimir Putin is reviving it.
Intervision's back, this time with Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the United States.
From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman.
And today on The Global Story, why is Putin reviving this Soviet relic?
And what does it tell us about the new global soft power?
So I'm Steve Rosenberg.
I'm the BBC's Russia editor based in Moscow.
I've been living and working in Russia for more than 30 years now,